ESRD Treatment Choices Payment Model: An Overview

"ESRD Treatment Choices Payment Model: An Overview"
Recorded live on Thursday, January 28th, 2021 by the KPCOP Community of Practice

Speaker:
Benjamin Hippen, MD, FASN, FAST

Moderators:
Matthew Cooper MD, FACS
Ruben Velez, MD, FACP

Session objectives:
1. Review key facets of the ESRD Treatment Choices (ETC) mandatory payment model for general nephrologists and dialysis providers;
2. Highlight foreseeable implications of the ETC model for transplant referral patterns and transplant evaluation workflow processes;
3. Compare the incentives and benchmarks in the ETC model with other regulatory and quality benchmarks currently applicable to dialysis providers and transplant centers;
4. Outline strategies for transplant centers to anticipate and respond to significant changes in referral pattern behavior