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By Kevin Longino, CEO of National Kidney Foundation and kidney transplant patient
With each new week during the COVID-19 crisis we all find ourselves dealing with new challenges and some unusual opportunities. So, first some challenges.
Dialysis, moving to homeOur patients are rightly concerned about how this health crisis affects them. Some of the questions we’re receiving from patients and care partners are related to...
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Please note - this event is sold out and at capacity. Any registration received after 4pm on 3/22/22 will not be accepted.
The National Kidney Foundation’s New York City Gala is Springing back with a reimagined, engaging, fun-filled spy experience that you won't want to miss! We are relaunching the highly sought-after event, after last year’s cancellation, with a new venue, guest experience and...
Each year, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) publishes the end-stage renal disease (ESRD) regulation, known as the ESRD rule. One of CMS’ main jobs is to provide health insurance to people covered by Medicare (that’s most dialysis patients, which is why what CMS does is so important to us at NKF)! The annual ESRD rule lays out what CMS will pay a dialysis facility to care for you over the coming year, as well as the latest...
While treatments for chronic kidney disease (CKD) have recently seen some notable advances, the pace of innovation lags far behind that of other diseases and is insufficient to meet the growing burden CKD places on our health system. An estimated 37 million adults, or 15% of the U.S. population, have CKD and nearly 800,000 have irreversible kidney failure. Our aging population, obesity epidemic, and increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes...
As control of Congress hangs in the balance, NKF is already looking forward to continuing to build bi-partisan support for our legislative and regulatory agenda that promotes better access, coordination, and quality of kidney care.
Were kidney health supporters elected?We are pleased that many supporters of kidney health were reelected.
These supporters include:
- Reps. Michael Burgess (R-TX-26)
- ...
March means signs of spring, filling out college basketball brackets, and if you are a congressional staffer, fielding a TON of appropriations requests as budgets for the coming fiscal year are being written. It’s a multi-step process that can take months, but as participants in our recent Virtual Kidney Patient Summit know, now is the time to be making your ask!
Asking Congress to increase fundingThis year, NKF is making a major push...
Just a year or two from now, patients waiting for a human kidney may be able to participate in a trial for a pig kidney, if a short-term experiment at NYU Langone Health in New York City paves the way for trials in patients with end-stage kidney failure.
The successful result was released October 19 and this experiment is the first of its kind....