556620login-checkCMS’ Financial Incentives Didn’t Move the Dial on Home Dialysis |
— Incentives may just not be strong enough, say some
Financial incentives to encourage home dialysis may be falling flat, according to a first-year analysis of Medicare’s End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Treatment Choices (ETC) Model.
Compared with controls, ESRD facilities and managing clinicians practicing within a hospital referral region randomized to receive financial incentives only increased the number of new patients with home dialysis in the first 90 days of treatment by a non-significant 0.12% (P=0.88), reported Yunan Ji, PhD, of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and colleagues. Read the full story in MedPage Today.
556620login-checkCMS’ Financial Incentives Didn’t Move the Dial on Home Dialysis |