I was glad to hear that ystrday Scty Azar talked abt efforts at HHS to improve access to+quality of kidney care for the 30 mil Americans w kidney disease This is something I’ve been working on for many yrs in the Senate + will continue to do as chair of Sen Finance Cmte
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@ChuckGrassley first held a hearing on this issue in June 2000. He later urged@HHSGov to improve incentives to meet quality care standards for dialysis in Medicare beneficiaries. Medicare spends $79 billion annually on people with kidney disease.
A recent priority of Grassley’s was the extension of "Independence at Home" in the CHRONIC CARE Act, passed in 2017. It allows those receiving kidney dialysis at home a monthly check-in with their doctor via telehealth instead of having to go to the doctor’s office or hospital.
