For the last decade, nephrology practices have navigated kidney care focused Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (“Innovation Center”) models—from ESRD Seamless Care Organizations (“ESCOs”) ...

Source: Getty Images Black patients with chronic kidney diseases have faced historically longer waiting times for kidney transplants due to an outdated test, but progress is being made. Progress is ...

PLANO, Texas, March 30, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Following Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation's (CMMI's) release of the 2024 Kidney Care Choices (KCC) Model results, Kidneylink, a national ...

This video is part of “Innovations In: Kidney Disease,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Vertex. Imagine it’s the first day of summer, and you ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Thousands of African Americans are a step closer to receiving a new kidney. This week, researchers from Mass General Brigham, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Boston ...

In 2021, researchers finally acknowledged a glaring racial bias against Black medical patients undergoing kidney-related treatment. Since then, an effort to reverse the harm caused by the race-based ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — An unprecedented effort to reverse the effects of a racially biased medical test that blocked or delayed Black people from getting kidney transplants seems to be working. Researchers ...

New research suggests that restorative justice efforts aimed at correcting the impact of a racially biased medical test that blocked or delayed Black patients from receiving kidney transplants are ...

Anil Oza is a general assignment reporter at STAT focused on the NIH and health equity. You can reach him on Signal at aniloza.16. Several years ago, nephrologists attempted a first-of-its-kind effort ...