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Date:2/5/2008

ide," said Dr. Ed. Jones, a practicing nephrologist and Chair of KCP. "An extension of the MSP provision gives some patients with private insurance a choice in their healthcare coverage. Further, KCP believes extending this provision will encourage large health plans to focus more heavily on disease prevention, address co-morbidities and encourage use of fistulas in the future."

KCP recognizes that bundling of payment is inevitable for the Medicare dialysis benefit, though stresses caution over the importance of being especially attentive to the details so that the benefit is not disrupted in any way. "Resources taken out of a Medicare payment rate that many policy experts and third-party entities such as MedPAC regard as already underfunded would only have a negative impact on care," added Dr. Jones. "KCP urges the Administration to involve the community if a bundled payment system is developed in order to ensure that there are no unexpected or unanticipated consequences to patients. Rather, savings should be put back into the system in the form of disease prevention and education initiatives, quality payments and an inflationary update."

KCP looks forward to working with the Administration and Congress on these critical initiatives that are so important to Americans with kidney failure who rely on the ESRD benefit for quality of life and quality of care.

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