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On March 5, 2020, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center announced that it is delaying the inception of the Kidney Care Choices (KCC) Model’s first performance year until Jan. 1, 2022.
The CMS’ KCC Model’s Kidney Care First (KCF) Option and the Comprehensive Kidney Care Contracting (CKCC) Option incentivize healthcare providers to manage the care of Medicare beneficiaries with chronic kidney disease stages 4 and 5 and end-stage renal disease. Unlike prior value-based kidney care models, the KCF and CKCC options are voluntary models that include both chronic kidney disease and end-stage renal disease beneficiaries, but align patients based on nephrology care, rather than based on dialysis treatments.