Editor
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services proposes a 3.1% Medicare pay hike for dialysis providers next year and lays out plans for quality improvement in a draft regulation issued Tuesday.
The proposed rule would hike the base rate for dialysis services by $6.19 to $264.09. The regulation would increase payments to hospital-based end-stage renal disease providers by 3.7% and to freestanding facilities by 3.1%, according to CMS.
CMS also…
