Transplant Donor Protection
The optimal treatment for ESRD is often a transplanted kidney from a living or deceased donor. ESRD patients who receive a transplant experience improved quality of life and lower healthcare costs. Currently, there are over 100,000 individuals waiting for a kidney transplant, while only 17,000 kidney transplants are performed each year. By encouraging living donation, the wait times for a transplant will decrease however it is important to have protections in place for these altruistic donors. Removing barriers to living donations and strengthening access to transplantation will also benefit taxpayers and the Medicare Trust Funds.
Related Information
DPC Advocates Help Push State Legislation Forward
State legislatures are in high gear during spring, and efforts by state legislators to support dialysis patients are in full swing this month. We’ve already had several legislative victories on living organ donor protection [...]
April is Donate Life Month
Each April, National Donate Life Month encourages Americans to register as organ, eye, and tissue donors; to become educated about living donation (that includes living kidney donation!); and to honor those that have saved [...]
Bipartisan Living Donor Protection Act Introduced to Protect Organ Donors
Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and Congresswoman Jamie Herrera Beutler (R-WA), joined by Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR), introduced the Living Donor Protection Act to protect the rights of living organ donors. [...]
DPC Advocates Advance Dialysis Patient Issues at the State Level
Despite the ongoing pandemic and economic crisis, many state legislators recognize the added challenges faced by dialysis patients every day. Some have responded by introducing legislation to increased dialysis patient access to Medigap plans to [...]
State Legislatures Introduce Bills that Would Positively Impact Dialysis Patients
With the start of the new year, state legislatures throughout the country are beginning their legislative sessions with a flurry of new bills being introduced on a wide-ranging number of topics. While the Covid-19 pandemic [...]
CMS Announces Penalties and Rewards for Promoting Home Dialysis and Transplants
On September 18, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it finalized the End-Stage Renal Disease Treatment Choices (ETC) Model. The ETC Model was a cornerstone of President Trump’s Advancing Kidney Health Executive Order [...]
English
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Malay
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish