Medicare Delays Trial Of Letting Hospice Patients Continue Dialysis

Medicare Delays Trial Of Letting Hospice Patients Continue Dialysis

A strange, long-standing Medicare policy forces patients with kidney disease to give up dialysis to receive hospice. Medicare was planning to experiment with a reversal to this policy this year, but a recent announcement shows the trial being delayed until January 1, 2022. Will this trial eventually create hope for much needed access to hospice among patients with kidney disease?