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A Medicare rule is undermining kidney care for our most vulnerable patients
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McKnight's Long-Term Care News
In January 2025, a quiet but consequential Medicare rule change redefined how dialysis patients access a critical class of medications.
Nephrologists for Equitable Kidney Care (NEKC) and the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) are hearing stories from nephrologists and pharmacists nationwide.
Fortunately, a long-term care pharmacist identified the issue and dispensed a short-term supply of sevelamer at the facility’s cost to ensure continuity of care.
A call for changeNEKC was founded to amplify the voices of those too often left behind in kidney care.
The opinions expressed in McKnight’s Long-Term Care News guest submissions are the author’s and are not necessarily those of McKnight’s Long-Term Care News or its editors.
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