.... These differences often may depend on whether EN is reimbursed as a discrete therapy or subsumed into a larger benefit. In the US, the Medicare and Medicaid programs are the major public payers for EN. EN may be susceptible to overuse, especially in the long-term care setting. The trends in coverage and payment...

... Abstract Both the German statutory and private health insurances cover enteral nutrition (EN) products. Approximately 100,000 patients receive reimbursed EN; 70% are tube fed for an average 9 months. 70% of the tube-fed patients are cared for in institutions (i.e. for the elderly) and 30...

... including how to communicate risk to drive behavior change, development of tools that are quick and easy to integrate seamlessly into the busy clinical flow, and reimbursement for the time needed to implement should be considered. Abstract Caries risk assessment (CRA) is essential to delivering...

... distributed and economy of scale has resulted in HD being the most common ESRD modality. Use of PD and preemptive kidney transplant were relatively more common in younger groups and relatively less common among Black and Hispanic patients. Of note is that the new Medicare reimbursement system, known...

... home dialysis. In Japan, the corresponding figures were 2.89% for PD and 0.17% for HDD, with only 3.06% of patients receiving home dialysis, the lowest rate in the world [ 2 ]. The history of HHD in Japan is not so short, starting in Nagoya in 1968. Government reimbursement was started...

... with proper nutrition and exercise in CKD management. Challenges and Solutions: There are global shortage of dietitians and challenges in accessibility and availability of renal dietitians in many emerging countries as well as lack of reimbursement of dietitians’ consultations. Many patients may not have...

... of the composition of dialysis fluid, sufficient reimbursement for HHD, and the establishment of a business model for HHD similar to that for peritoneal dialysis. Introduction The history of home hemodialysis therapy (HHD) in Japan started in Nagoya in 1968, and governmental reimbursement was initiated...

... of Health Care Organization and Financing (ISHCOF). Int J Health Care Finance Econ 2007; 7: 73–111. 8. De Vecchi AF, Dratwa M, Wiedemann ME: Healthcare systems and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) therapies – an international review: costs and reimbursement/funding of ESRD therapies. Nephrol Dial...

... be considerable. Under Medicare, physician-administered drugs are paid for by Part B and therefore patients are responsible for 20% of the allowable reimbursement for both the drug and the physician services associated with administering the drug. For ranibizumab and aflibercept, this can total USD 400-500 per...

... for healthcare professionals who provide exercise advise and counselling to individuals with CKD; (2) providing incentives to reimburse payers to develop and maintain exercise programs in CKD; and (3) providing more personalized approaches to exercise prescription and implementation of exercise programs...

... of the progress made in the fields of PD and transplantation, and in 2018 revised the reimbursement policy for fees for medical service in accordance with the goal of implementing an “integrated community-based health care system.” Key Message: PD is an option for elderly patients and should be considered...

... of therapy if it becomes more affordable. Government reimbursement schemes, the Once-in-a-Lifetime Payment Scheme, and PD insurance all provide strong impetus to dialysis programmes. Local manufacturing of PD fluid has also reduced the cost of therapy to some extent. PD may be preferable for patients...

... their knowledge and skills, to have conversations with those affected by HIV infection as to what they would ideally want in addressing their care needs; care needs that are now complicated by comorbid conditions of aging and healthcare reimbursement that uniquely intersect with HIV infection. This chapter...

...-adjusted life years (QALY) and the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER). QALY were estimated using the EuroQOL-5 dimension. Reimbursement for medical fees in the national health insurance system was used as an indicator of costs. In a comparative analysis of hemodialysis and online HDF, a total...

... barriers have hindered wider routine use of RT-CGM in children and adolescents, such as poor reimbursement in public insurance systems, insufficient training of diabetes care teams, age-specific behavior peculiarities, and lack of essential motivation for improving diabetes care and outcomes. Evidence...

... and to assess the medicoeconomic impact of this system after 2 years of use. Ultimately, the results may lead to granting of reimbursable status for the Diabeo system by the French national social security authorities, followed by widespread use of the system in France and international availability...

... delivering on the promise of personalized cancer therapy. These include tumor heterogeneity and molecular evolution, costs and potential morbidity of biopsies, lack of effective drugs against most genomic aberrations, technical limitations of molecular tests, and reimbursement and regulatory hurdles...

... Abstract There are currently very few center-based daily hemodialysis programs.The reason is obvious as one examines its financial impact to the provider.Daily hemodialysis performed in the center is prohibitively expensive unlessthe dialysis provider is reimbursed for the additional treatment...

... gains with cost savings. However, it is not possible to rank the interventions according to their cost-effectiveness or to assess the generalizability of their results. Cost-effectiveness increasingly will be a major consideration in public reimbursement decisions. Therefore, evaluation research has...