Medicare Innovation Center Request for Applications: Comprehensive ESRD Care Model

This document was released on April 14, 2014 by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation. In this request for applications, CMS described its plans for a comprehensive end-stage renal disease (ESRD) care model. The goal is to improve outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries with ESRD and reduce total Medicare per capita expenditures by creating financial incentives for dialysis facilities, nephrologists, and other Medicare providers of services and suppliers to collaboratively and comprehensively address the extensive needs of the complex ESRD beneficiary population . . .