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- A new payment system for Medicare patients, set to start on January 1, 2011, will consolidate separate services into a bundled payment model instead of the traditional fee-for-service.
- The shift in payment strategy raises concerns among American physicians and dialysis innovators regarding its implications on patient care and the healthcare system.
- Editor-in-Chief Peter Blake invited Thomas Golper to gather views from various colleagues to address these concerns following the federal government's closure of the comment period on the bundling methodology.
Article Abstract
On 1 January 2011, a new payment system for Medicare patients will be implemented in the United States. This new system bundles services previously charged separately and under a "fee for service" environment. The authors discuss the implications of this approach. Over the next several pages is a response by American physicians and dialysis innovators to a federal initiative to change the way dialysis is paid for in the United States. Peter Blake, the Editor-in-Chief of Peritoneal Dialysis International, invited Thomas Golper to articulate physicians' concerns with this new payment scheme. After the government of the USA closed its comment period over the new payment methodology, called "bundling," Golper sought out colleagues from diverse backgrounds and compiled this collective view of the situation.
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