NN&I - April 2010
4 Nephrology News & Issues April 2010www.nephronline.comContents Vol. 24, No. 4, April 2010 First Word 8How ACOs blend with CMS strategy Mark E. Neumann National 10CMS encouraged by input from TEP sessions \037 RPA revises recommendations for EPO use \037 Buettner steps down \037 DaVita files motion to dismiss whistleblower suit \037 NKF launches new education program for CKD patients \037 Health Care Beat 12South poll: health care \036ght mirrors itself \037omas Keating Business 14Fresenius doubles acquisition budget, \037 buys National Vascular Care NxStage System One goes Dutch \037 FDA: Class I recall for Baxter devices \037 Briefs \037 - DaVita names new CFO, VP of Communications - Satellite Dialysis opens new center in Merced, Calif. - DaVita, athenahealth launch EHR platform Stocks in the News \037 - Amgen, Inc. - Affymax, Inc. - Roche Holding Ltd. Taking Stock \037Clinical 16NxStage FREEDOM data show daily HHD improves \037 sleep quality, restless legs syndrome Obesity may affect kidneys differently in whites, blacks \037 Fatigue may predict heart attack in ESRD \037 Diabetes Watch 17Transition Therapeutics reaches licensing deal \037 with Eli Lilly Tolerex hopes drug will reshape diabetes therapy \037 Diabetes drug stinksliterally \037 Confidential federal report: Glaxo's Avandia tied to \037 heart problems FDA accepts Biodel's rapid-acting insulin application \037 Nursing Update 18 ANNA symposium to focus on caring for patients in the technology age Cover Story 22With the CMS-directed payment bundle arriving in January for dialysis facilities, cost-effective medicine that delivers quality outcomes will have to be the norm. Drug costs anemia treatments in particularwill come under the microscope. The authors review the value of using regular low-dose iron in reducing ESA use. Re\037ning the approach to IV iron use in hemodialysis patients: a post-DRIVE analysisBy Amit Sharma, MD, FACP, FASN, Kirsten Vanderhalt, Kenneth J. Ryan, PhD, and Jo Sclafani, PharmD Contents_NNI0410_4.indd 4 3/19/10 11:36:48 AM
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