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ReviewKidney international reports2024

A Transplant-Inclusive Value-Based Kidney Care Payment Model.

Benjamin E Hippen, George M Hart, Franklin W Maddux

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Review in Kidney international reports, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Benjamin E HippenGlobal Medical Office, Fresenius Medical Care, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.
George M HartInterwell Health, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.
Franklin W MadduxGlobal Medical Office, Fresenius Medical Care, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the United States, kidney care payment models are migrating toward value-based care (VBC) models incentivizing quality of care at lower cost. Current kidney VBC models will continue through 2026. We propose a future transplant-inclusive VBC (TIVBC) model designed to supplement current models focusing on patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). The proposed TIVBC is structured as an episode-of-care model with risk-based reimbursement for "referral/evaluation/waitlisting" (REW, referencing kidney transplantation), "primary hospitalization to 180 days posttransplant," and "long-term graft survival." Challenges around organ acquisition costs, adjustments to quality metrics, and potential criticisms of the proposed model are discussed. We propose next steps in risk-adjustment and cost-prediction to develop as an end-to-end, TIVBC model.

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kidney transplantationnephrologypayment modelspublic policyvalue based care

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PMID38899170
PMCPMC11184397

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