Legislation

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As part of our mission of caring for and educating kidney patients in our community, the Northwest Kidney Centers is active in legislative issues pertaining to kidney disease treatment and care.

We urge you to learn more and become involved! So many laws directly impact your care, and the more you know, the bigger our collective voice will be. Every vote and letter is important. You can help us make a real difference in the quality of kidney disease treatment in our state.

To learn more about recently passed or pending legislation, click on the links below. We have included a link that helps you learn who your local representatives are, and how they can be reached.

The Kidney Care Quality and Education Act of 2007 is important legislation that has been introduced to provide incentives to create public and patient education programs to increase awareness about chronic kidney disease (CKD) and to help patients learn self-management skills.

This act would also establish a three-year Continuous Quality Improvement Initiative that would provide a statutory basis for increases in the composite rate and reward quality improvements. It would also provide Medicare coverage for CKD education services for Medicare-eligible patients, establish uniform training for patient care dialysis technicians, and seek to understand the barriers to the adoption of different treatment modalities by patients.

To take action and contact your legislator about this initiative, click here.