Dive Brief: The Biden administration on Thursday unveiled a new value-based payment model seeking to reduce health disparities in end-stage renal disease. The model is part of CMS’ proposed ESRD prospective payment system rule, and would modify the current ESRD Treatment Choices Model’s benchmarking and scoring methodology to try to incentivize dialysis providers to lower… Read More »
“I often think about how I can make you see these things about yourself that others see. I think about the ways I can tell you that things will get better even though the darkest of days is upon you right now. But I know I can’t make you see these things; no one can.… Read More »
The delta variant of the novel coronavirus is gaining a frightening foothold in areas of the country with low vaccination rates, spurring the White House to mobilize “surge response teams” to combat the variant that threatens to undo the nation’s progress in beating back the pandemic. About 1,000 counties in the U.S. have vaccination rates… Read More »
Two surgeries in one day. Thanks to Mission Health’s commitment to bring world-class technology to the people of western North Carolina, 74-year-old Alice McLaughlin, a retired blanket mill worker who lives in Swannanoa and is the caregiver to her 47-year-old son who was paralyzed in a car accident, only spent one night recovering in the… Read More »