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HHS launches national kidney care plan focused on disease prevention, dialysis care and reforming the transplant system

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HHS launches national kidney care plan focused on disease prevention, dialysis care and reforming the transplant system

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Tuesday a coordinated plan to improve the nation’s kidney care.

Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects more than one in 10 adults—or 37 million people—in the U.S., data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show.

The Kidney Care National Plan has three priorities: preventing kidney failure, improving dialysis care while expanding patient choice and reforming the transplant system.

Department-wide agencies will use the plan to advance policy, payment, research, regulatory and oversight actions, according to the announcement.

Moreover, HHS will use the plan to advance a National Transplant Expansion Strategy, which it says expands on a 2019 executive order from President Donald Trump. The order—entitled “Advancing American Kidney Health”—established a “federal vision” for such care, officials say.

“President Trump changed the course of kidney care in 2019 by challenging a system that waited for patients to reach kidney failure,” said Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., HHS Secretary, in a statement. “Now HHS is building on that work by detecting kidney disease earlier, expanding treatment and home-care options, removing barriers to innovation and transplantation, and strengthening safety across the transplant system. Our goal is simple: preserve kidney health, give patients more choices, and help more Americans avoid kidney failure and live longer, healthier lives.”

The National Kidney Foundation said in a statement it “welcomes” the department’s focus on improving such care.

“This plan provides an important roadmap,” the organization said.



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