'It's truly an exciting day for advancing kidney health in our country,' Trump said.
Another key change: steps to help the groups that collect donations from the deceased to do a better job. Officials cited a study that suggested long term it might be possible to find 17,000 more kidneys and 11,000 other organs from deceased donors for transplant every year.
"Right now, every financial incentive is toward dialysis and not toward transplantation and long-term survivorship," said Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, whose father experienced traditional and at-home dialysis before getting a transplant from a living donor. Azar, speaking at a Senate hearing in March, added,"And you get what you pay for."
More than 94,000 of the 113,000 people on the national organ waiting list need a kidney. Last year, there were 21,167 kidney transplants. Of those, 6,442 were from living donors, according to the United Network for Organ Sharing, which oversees the nation's transplant system. Too often, transplant centers don't see a kidney patient until he or she has been on dialysis for years, Tevar said. And although any transplant is preferable, one from a living donor is best because those organs"work better, longer and faster," Tevar said.Medicare payment changes that would provide a financial incentive for doctors and clinics to help kidney patients stave off end-stage disease by about six months.
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