Home Dialysis Central update
[Vol.2, No.4, April 25, 2005]
Home Dialysis Central is your one-stop source for PD and home hemo info & support. Order our FREE POSTCARDS and give them to your CKD patients, home patients, and in-center patients who might benefit from home treatment!
Home Dialysis Central has more than 20,000 visitors in March
We launched our site last July, with 2,500 visitors, and in just 9 months, we've seen an 8-fold increase in site traffic. Home dialysis is clearly a topic of interest for the renal community.
New maps of home dialysis coverage now "live"
If the nearest home dialysis is the next town over, how will you find it? Easy! Check out our new coverage maps! Each home dialysis site has a dot showing a 120-mile radius—about a 2-hour drive. Why? Because a home clinic doesn't need to be right around the corner—it can be as far away as you're willing to go once a month, after training is done.
Topic of the month: Conditions for Coverage
In just 9 work days, your chance to respond to the draft Conditiions for Coverage of Dialysis Facilities will end! Read this month's article about what might be important to home dialysis patients. Reply to this email to request a copy of the Medical Education Institute's comments—and visit Home Dialysis Central to submit your e-comments by 5pm on May 5, 2005.
Dwain's first dialysis treatment 30 years ago was one of the few he didn't do himself
Dialysis—of any kind—was not available to all people with kidney failure in 1975. Dwain, who has done both PD and home hemo, was one of the lucky few. Read his story!
How does Medicare pay for home hemodialysis treatments as a primary payer under Method I?
Click here to learn the answers to this & other questions about Medicare payment for PD and home hemo.
Read all about it!
Review home dialysis-related news, courtesy of Nephrology News & Issues. This week's stories include:
- Wellbound, Kaiser partner for home dialysis
- Could obesity be caused by a common cold virus?
- Computer could match kidneys and recipients
- Tea might help prevent diabetes, cataracts
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Dialysis started in the U.S. in the 1960s at the Northwest Kidney Centers in Seattle. Learn more about them.
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