Nephrology practices across the country are gearing up to participate in new alternative payment models for kidney care that are launching next year. The Comprehensive Kidney Care Contracting option of the Kidney Care Choices model (CKCC) is a new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) payment innovation model that incentivizes healthcare providers to manage the care of Medicare beneficiaries with chronic kidney disease (CKD) stages 4 and 5 and end stage renal disease (ESRD). Unlike prior value-based kidney care models, CKCC addresses both CKD and ESRD beneficiaries and aligns patients based on nephrology care, not dialysis treatments. The implementation period for the program started on Oct. 15, 2020, and the official launch of the performance period is on April 1, 2021.
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Source: https://www.hcinnovationgroup.com/policy-value-based-care/alternative-payment-models/article/21162420/nephrologists-prepare-for-new-kidney-care-payment-models