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Requirements for Successful Completion: Complete the learning activity in its entirety and complete the online CNE evaluation. You will be able to print your CNE certificate at any time after you complete the evaluation.
Faculty, Planners, and Speakers Conflict of Interest Disclosure:
Planning Commitee disclosures: • Denise Murcek - Per diem employee, Fresenius Medical Care • Melissa Nesmith-Vester – Employee, Aegerion • Elizabeth St. John - Employee, Fresenius Medical Care • Kyra Trappett – Employee, DaVita
Faculty and speakers have no disclosures to declare.
Commercial Support and Sponsorship: No commercial support or sponsorship declared.
Accreditation Statement: American Nephrology Nurses’ Association is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
ANNA is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, provider number CEP 00910.
Objectives:
• Discuss bundling and the proposed changes as well as the amendments due to H.R. 4032. • Compare and contrast dialysis payment before PPS, currently, and the anticipated PPS payment. • Examine the past, present, and future trends for the anemia and mineral and bone metabolism goals as well as the therapy trends for each disease state. • Examine Ca, P, and iPTH and the therapy trends from 2010 to present. Identify the present and proposed QIP and how therapy may change to accommodate the changes. • Identify the most common medications dispensed.