Home Dialysis Equipment Vendors Seek More Medicare Pay For Patient Training
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Companies want CMS to recognize how much time and money it actually takes to train end-stage renal disease patients on the use of home dialysis equipment.
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