Healthmap Blog

Healthmap’s New Guide to In-Home Dialysis

Our new guide has been created to increase patient understanding and acceptance of this renal replacement therapy option.

The Importance of In-Home Dialysis in Value-Based ESRD Care

At Healthmap, we strongly promote the advantages of in-home dialysis over in-center treatment for patients and providers alike.

Risk Adjustment and CKD: Capturing Co-Morbidities

In Value-Based Care, accurate Hierarchical Condition Category (HCC) coding and documentation is essential for capturing or maintaining accurate patient diagnosis and risk adjustment. For kidney disease patients, this is especially important due to the many co-morbidities that may be present. Healthmap can help.

Lowering Costs & Improving Care in End-stage Renal Disease Treatment

The option of in-home dialysis offers significant benefits for payers, providers, and patients.

CMS Kidney Care Choices Deadline

The KCC model provides financial incentives for high-quality, efficient care of Medicare patients with Chronic Kidney Disease.

How Proactive Kidney Care Reduces Hospitalizations and Improves Outcomes

Chronic Kidney Disease and End-Stage Renal Disease require lifelong care. Complications can occur quickly and may include fluid retention, anemia, gout etc

COVID-19 and the Kidneys

Significant research has been published over the last few years indicating a link between COVID-19 and Acute Kidney Injury (AKI).

World Kidney Day: Kidney Health for All

March is National Kidney Month, time to generate awareness for the importance of kidney health and to reduce the instances and severity of CKD.

National Kidney Month Kickoff

March is National Kidney Month, time to generate awareness for the importance of kidney health and to reduce the instances and severity of CKD.

It’s National Heart Month….So Why are We Talking About the Kidneys?

February is American Heart Month and this year the focus is on hypertension, often referred to as high blood pressure. In the U.S., 30.3 million American adults have been diagnosed with heart disease , the leading cause of death in our country—and across the world, for men and women of all races. One of the major risk factors for developing heart disease is hypertension, a condition that affects 33.2%, of Americans aged 20+, and only one in four have the condition under control.