I am hoping most of you voters (in California) have been reading the editorials and recommendations in all the papers, as well as local TV news, to reject Proposition 29.
Continue reading The Vote on Proposition 29 is Tuesday
So, I am not sure if you recall our discussion of one of the (many new) screwups SCOTUS (Supreme Court of the United States) effected recently. I am talking about its decision in Marietta Memorial Hospital Employee Health Benefit Plan v. DaVita Inc.
Continue reading Reversing a bad SCOTUS decision
I know I haven’t finished the two other blog posts about how SCOTUS (The Supreme Court of the United States) has been subverting the laws of the US over the past few years. But, this new ruling affects dialysis patients (and dialysis providers), so I will share this one first. (And, I haven’t gotten to the NY gun ruling abrogation or the overturning of Roe v. Wade!)
Continue reading SCOTUS Screw-Up
OK, this is going to be a rant. Against a firm that generally has raised my rankles for some 50 years.
Continue reading Sucking at the Government Tit
So, is this good news or bad news? While the number of dialysis patients is increasing, the rate of annual increase has lessened. Back in 2016, there were 20K new patients, it dropped again last year, and this year the total increase was closer to 14K.
Well, this is getting interesting. After all these years of having Fresenius and DaVita swallowing up dialysis centers, there is change coming.
Continue reading Move Over. There’s a new guy in town!
I am sure you are all wondering what’s been happening about the dialysis patient organizations- and, now, it seems that some dialysis clinics- are paying the health insurance premiums for dialysis patients. (I first discussed this issue here). There is a new complainant- it’s not just private insurance companies now.
Continue reading Creative Accounting or Illegal Practice?
Here it comes again! On 1 July, CMMS (the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) proposed cutting the payment of dialysis allocations by 12%. (For those of you not well versed in math- that’s about a 1/8 cut.) But, that’s not quite right, since they also offered a 2.6% increase in the “bundle” payment rate, so the cut comes to about $ 24 less per treatment.
Continue reading The Sky is Falling! Really?
