CMS proposes $50 million payment bump for dialysis services

Under the proposed rule, dialysis facilities would receive 0.5% or $50 million more in 2017 than they received in reimbursement this year.

At the end of 2013, the last year for which a count was performed, there were 661,648 patients using dialysis services. In 2014, Medicare expenditures for outpatient dialysis services were $11.2 billion, a 1% increase compared with 2013 spending, according to federal data.

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