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DPC Opposes Proposed Rule to Limit Medicaid Coverage of Nutritional Supplements

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:09:26+00:00November 2nd, 2011|Categories: Comment Letter, Medicaid, State Advocacy|

Katherine Ceroalo New York State Department of Health Bureau of House Counsel, Regulatory Affairs Unit Room 2438, ESP, Tower Building Albany, NY 12237 RE: Medicaid Benefit Limits for Enteral Formula (I.D. No. HLT-39-11-00007-P) Dear Ms. Ceroalo, Dialysis Patient Citizens (DPC) appreciates the opportunity to submit comments on the proposed rule to limit Medicaid coverage of enteral formula (I.D. No. HLT-39-11-00007-P). We write today on behalf of the 24,941 dialysis patients living in New York because our membership remains profoundly concerned about the restriction of these vital supplements. The proposed rule to limit coverage of enteral nutritional supplements to adults over [...]

DPC Comments on Restrictions to New York Medicaid Coverage of Enteral Nutritional Supplements

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:09:26+00:00October 11th, 2011|Categories: Comment Letter, Medicaid, State Advocacy|

Assemblyman Richard Gottfried, Chair, Assembly Health Committee Legislative Office Building (LOB), Room 822 Albany, NY 12248 Senator Kemp Hannon, Chair, Senate Health Committee 420 State Capitol Bldg. Albany, NY 12247 RE: Restrictions to New York Medicaid Coverage of Enteral Nutritional Supplements Dear Senate Health Committee Chair Hannon and Assembly Health Committee Chair Gottfried: As America’s largest patient-led organization representing dialysis patients, Dialysis Patient Citizens (DPC) works to improve the quality of life of dialysis patients. Today we write on behalf of the 24,491 dialysis patients in New York, because we remain deeply concerned about the loss of coverage of enternal [...]

DPC and Kidney Community comment on Quality Incentive Program

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:09:26+00:00October 3rd, 2011|Categories: Comment Letter, Quality Incentive Program|

Dialysis Patient Citizens’ Patient Advocates Storm Capitol Hill

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:09:26+00:00September 19th, 2011|Categories: Access to Transplant, Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage, Press Release|

Participants met with Members of Congress to Discuss Extending Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage for Transplant Patients, Deficit Reduction Efforts (Washington, DC) – Last week, patient advocates with Dialysis Patient Citizens (DPC) traveled to Washington, DC to meet with their Members of Congress and discuss legislative issues important to the 31 million Americans with chronic kidney disease. Participants from 21 states came to the nation’s capital for a multi-day trip that included a congressional briefing, training session and culminated in a day of meetings on Capitol Hill. DPC, the nation’s largest patient-led dialysis organization, organized the event in an effort to raise awareness [...]

Dialysis Patient Citizens Provides Comments to CMS on ESRD Quality Incentive Program

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:09:26+00:00August 31st, 2011|Categories: Press Release, Quality Incentive Program|

Letter Outlines Key Priorities Including Timeliness of Data, Lower Level Hemoglobin Measure (Washington, DC) - Yesterday, Dialysis Patient Citizens (DPC), the nation’s largest, patient-led dialysis organization, provided comments to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the Proposed Rule for the Changes to the End Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System for CY 2012, End Stage Renal Disease Quality Incentive Program for PY 2013 and PY 2014. As a member of Kidney Care Partners (KCP), DPC stated its strong support for the comments submitted by the coalition, and used the letter as an opportunity to emphasize several key [...]

DPC Advocates for Quality Incentive Program Reform

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:09:26+00:00August 30th, 2011|Categories: Comment Letter, Quality Incentive Program|

DPC Fights for Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:09:26+00:00August 22nd, 2011|Categories: Access to Transplant, Comment Letter, Immunosuppressive Drug Coverage|

DPC’s Letter to Acting Director Richard J. Gilfillan for CMMI

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:09:26+00:00July 8th, 2011|Categories: Care Coordination, Innovation|

Acting Director Richard J. Gilfillan, M.D. Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Mail Stop C5-15-12, Room C5-15-03 7500 Security Boulevard Baltimore, MD 21244 Dear Dr. Gilfillan: Dialysis Patient Citizens (DPC), the nation’s largest dialysis patient organization, is writing to encourage the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) to implement a large-scale program targeted at improving health outcomes and quality of care for beneficiaries with end stage renal disease (ESRD), which would build on the success of the recent ESRD Disease Management demonstration project. As a patient education [...]

Shared Savings Program and Accountable Care Organizations

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:09:26+00:00June 2nd, 2011|Categories: Innovation|

Shared Savings Program and Accountable Care Organizations

Hannah Bracamonte2024-03-29T02:09:27+00:00June 2nd, 2011|Categories: Care Coordination, Comment Letter|

Dr. Donald Berwick Administrator Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Department of Health and Human Services Hubert H. Humphrey Building Room 445-G 200 Independence Ave, SW Washington, DC 20201 Re: CMS-1345-P: Medicare Program; Shared Savings Program: Accountable Care Organizations Dear Dr. Berwick: Dialysis Patient Citizens (DPC) appreciates the opportunity to comment to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) on the Proposed Rule for the Medicare Shared Savings Program: Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs). As America’s largest dialysis patient organization, DPC seeks to ensure that the patient’s point of view is heard and considered by policy makers on a wide [...]

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