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CMMI unveils ESRD payment model to improve health equity Getty Images/iStockphoto CMS on Thursday unveiled its first value-based payment model directly addressing health equity, a top Biden administration priority. The pay model is part of the agency's 2022 end-stage renal disease prospective payment system proposed rule. CMS plans to modify the ESRD Treatment Choices Model's benchmarking and scoring methodology to encourage dialysis providers to reduce disparities in home dialysis and kidney transplant rates among ESRD patients from disadvantaged communities. The proposed rule would also up...

The federal government fined many St. Louis area nursing homes for infection control problems at the same time it paid them incentive money for low infection rates.

Watershed council hears presentation from Adam Kramer Tainter Creek THE KRAMER FAMILY of Patch Grove, who own and operate Black Sand Granary, seem to delight in their field of sunflowers. Adam and Kellie Kramer are shown with their four children, from left, Ezra (10), Hailey (13), Harper (11), and Ila (4). Sun flowers are a joy to watch because, like solar panels mounted to follow the sun’s progress across the sky, they swivel their heads like the tiny, organic, solar collectors they are. TAINTER CREEK - Adam Kramer of Black Sand G...