DaVita HealthCare Partners DVA today commented on the final
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Medicare ESRD rule for
2014 and announced initial 2014 operating income guidance.
Final CMS Rule
LeAnne Zumwalt, Group Vice President said, “On the dialysis rule, the
bad news is that CMS appears to have accepted the premise that the
language in the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 required it to make
a partial rebasing of the bundle. This could unfairly result in cuts of
nearly $30 per treatment over a three to four year period by looking
only at pharmaceutical economics. This means that Medicare dialysis
rates will be flat in 2014 and 2015 in an
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