The following session was featured at ANNA's Nephrology Nursing Practice, Management, & Leadership Conference (San Diego, CA) on October 13, 2019. Advancing American Kidney Health: ANNA's Current State of Action Regarding the Executive Order Speaker Panel: Donna Bednarski, MSN, RN, ANP-BC, CNN, CNP, ANNA Liaison to Kidney Care Partners Tamara Kear, PhD, RN, CNS, CNN, ANNA National President James Twaddell, ANNA Health Policy Consultant, Senior Vice President, District Policy Group at Drinker Biddle & Reath CNE contact hours are available in the ANNA Online Library. Click here to access CNE. Regular: $5 ANNA Members: FREE* (*Add session to your card and apply AAKH19 coupon code at check out.) Sessions at 2019 ANNA Nephrology Nursing Practice, Management, & Leadership Conference (10/12-14/19) address Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative (see details) ANNA Submits Comments to CMS-5527-P: Medicare Program; Specialty Care Models to Improve Quality of Care and Reduce Expenditures (9/16/19) On July 10, 2019, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order to launch Advancing American Kidney Health, a new initiative designed to improve the lives of Americans with kidney disease by expanding treatment options and reducing health care costs. The initiative proposes various changes, including revising rules to ensure kidneys reach patients quicker, moving more patients into home dialysis, encouraging development of artificial kidneys, increasing the number of kidneys available for transplantation, and changing reimbursement for kidney disease treatment. As directed by the Executive Order, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), through its Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), released a proposed required payment model and four optional payment models to adjust payment incentives to encourage preventative kidney care, home dialysis, and kidney transplants. The Department’s Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) also released a paper entitled Advancing American Kidney Health. "The Advancing American Kidney Health initiative provides an opportunity for nephrology nurses and the American Nephrology Nurses Association (ANNA) to be strategic and forward thinking about what we have to offer as a profession," said ANNA President Tamara Kear, PhD, RN, CNS, CNN. "Successful implementation of the initiative will require the active involvement of nephrology nurses who possess the necessary education, training, and clinical skills to provide the most effective care to patients with kidney disease in all settings. Nephrology nurses must not only be at the table as the American Kidney Health initiative is implemented, we must have a leading role as full partners with the HHS and CMS, industry leaders, practitioners, and patient organizations as the initiative moves forward." ANNA and our colleagues in the kidney care community will continue to work together to share updated information and resources with our members throughout this process. Additional Information Advancing American Kidney Health (HHS document) Executive Order on Advancing American Kidney Health (7/10/19) HHS Press Release: HHS Launches President Trump’s ‘Advancing American Kidney Health’ Initiative (7/10/19) CMS Press Release: HHS To Transform Care Delivery for Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (7/10/19) Advancing American Kidney Health Paper CMS Kidney Care Choices Model CMS Fact Sheet: Proposed ESRD Treatment Choices (ETC) Mandatory Model CMS Fact Sheet: Kidney Care First and Comprehensive Kidney Care Contracting Models CMS Proposed Rule: Medicare Program; Specialty Care Models to Improve Quality of Care and Reduce Expenditures (CMS-5527-P) CMMI Request for Applications for the Kidney Care Choices Model ~ Applications due 1/22/20 CMS Final Rule: Medicare Program: End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System, Payment for Renal Dialysis Services Furnished to Individuals with Acute Kidney Injury, etc. (CMS-1713-F) CMMI Webinar Series on Kidney Care Choices Model (November 2019) Response from Kidney Care Community Letter from ANNA to CMS Regarding CMS-5527-P: Medicare Program; Specialty Care Models to Improve Quality of Care and Reduce Expenditures (9/16/19) Letter from the Alliance for Home Dialysis to CMS Regarding CMS-5527-P: Medicare Program; Specialty Care Models to Improve Quality of Care and Reduce Expenditures (9/16/19) Letter from Kidney Care Partners to CMS Regarding CMS-5527-P: Medicare Program; Specialty Care Models to Improve Quality of Care and Reduce Expenditures (9/15/19) Kidney Care Partners Supports Trump Administration’s Executive Order on Kidney Care (7/10/19) Resources HHS Kidney Care Policy Changes Incentivize CKD Care, Home Dialysis, and Transplantation (Summary from Renal Physicians Association, 7/19) New Payment Models Proposed by Advancing American Kidney Health Initiative Executive Order (Infographic) (American Society of Nephrology)
