Summary: Federal Value-Based Programs in Kidney Care

What is a value-based kidney care model? What does it include, and where did it come from?

In early 2024 I wrote this piece following a CMS update on participants in its KCC model. This graphic provides a visual summary of federal value-based kidney care programs since 2012.

Key Data Points:

• Patient Population: Range from ESRD patients to all clinical conditions
• Provider Participation: Voluntary or mandatory depending on the program
• Types of Programs: Shared savings/losses, bundled payments, capitation, pay-for-performance (P4P)
• Quality Measures: Ranges from clinical care, patient engagement, and care coordination to quality of life and safety
• Cost Measures: Focus on expenditures, clinical episodes, hospitalizations, and total cost of care
• Financial Incentives: Includes savings/losses sharing, bonuses, penalties, and target pricing

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I'm Tim Fitzpatrick. By day, I'm building IKONA; by night, I write Signals— curating & sharing lessons from the frontiers of kidney innovation, one [space] at a time. My goal is to make the frontiers of health more accessible, actionable, and backable, one [space] at a time.