Stakeholders Seek Telehealth Flexibilities In Broader Plan To Expand Home Dialysis

By Cara Smith / March 22, 2022 at 11:10 AM
Innovate Kidney Care’s broader agenda to expand home dialysis includes a smattering of new telehealth flexibilities among the provisions it recommends CMS and Congress adopt to make treatments more widely accessible to patients. The group says expanded use of telehealth would aid doctors and patients in remote monitoring and allow virtual training of patients who are participating in home dialysis. Prior to the public health emergency, home dialysis patients were required to have a face-to-face clinical examination of the vascular...


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