Healthmap Blog

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.

Altering COVID-19 Survival to Chronic Condition Trajectory

Our health plan partners are engaged with us in the effort to reduce the toll kidney disease takes on patients, providers and the healthcare system. Including COVID-19 survivors who are at risk for kidney disease is an important and necessary step in this effort. If you are looking for a partner to work with your health plan, contact us.

Living Well with Kidney Disease: Making Mental Health a Priority

Those struggling with untreated mental health conditions and kidney disease encounter unique challenges. Learn more.

It is Time to Bring Kidney Care into the 21st Century

Kidney disease is life-altering for patients and families, complex for providers to treat, and costly for health plans to cover. It doesn’t have to be this way.

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.

In-Home Dialysis: A Critical Key to Supporting High-Risk, High-Cost Kidney Disease Populations

The costly status quo for end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients is to automatically send them to in-center dialysis treatment. However, in-home dialysis represents one of the greatest opportunities to improve care, outcomes, member experience, and better manage cost. Healthmap Solutions’ Kidney Health Management (KHM) program guides providers and patients to in-home dialysis treatment. We’re currently working with national, regional, and local health plan clients to increase in-home dialysis adoption among their ERSD patient populations.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Announces End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Treatment Choices (ETC) Model

On September 18, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced it had “finalized the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Treatment Choices (ETC) Model, to improve or maintain the quality of care and reduce Medicare expenditures for patients with chronic kidney disease. The ETC Model delivers on the Executive Order, “Advancing American Kidney Health” and encourages an increased use of home dialysis and kidney transplants to help improve the quality of life of Medicare beneficiaries with ESRD. The ETC Model will impact approximately 30 percent of kidney care providers and will be implemented on January 1, 2021 at an estimated savings of $23 million over five and a half years”.