The current kidney care model—focused on late-stage disease and in-center hemodialysis—is unsustainable, because of costs, environmental burden, poor outcomes, and reduced quality of life.

Despite the growing burden of kidney disease, a complex array of issues in the US and worldwide makes innovation in the space particularly difficult.

Research has shown that a kidney transplant improves survival rates and quality of life for the hundreds of thousands of Americans with end-stage renal disease compared to remaining on dialysis.

On May 8, 2024, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) proposed the Increasing Organ Transplant Access (IOTA) model: a six-year mandatory payment model designed to expand equitable ...

A few years ago, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched a big experiment. The agency wanted to see if financial incentives and penalties would improve care for people with end-stage ...