Association of the End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices Payment Model With Home Dialysis Use at Kidney Failure Onset From 2016 to 2022.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services designed a mandatory payment model to incentivize home dialysis use: the End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices (ETC). Outpatient dialysis facilities and health care professionals providing nephrology services were randomly assigned to ETC participation at the hospital referral region level.

Objective

To assess the association between ETC and home dialysis use in the incident dialysis population in its first 18 months of implementation.

Design, setting, and participants

A cohort study with controlled, interrupted time series analysis of the US End-Stage Renal Disease Quality Reporting System database was conducted, using generalized estimating equations. All adults initiating home-based dialysis in the US betw

SUBMITTER: Johansen KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9972188 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature