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To create a world without kidney diseases, the ASN Alliance for Kidney Health elevates care by educating and informing, driving breakthroughs and innovation, and advocating for policies that create transformative changes in kidney medicine throughout the world.

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AHRQ

AHRQ, Congress

ASN

CDC

CMMI

CMMI, CMS

CMS

CMS, CMMI

CMS, HHS

Congress

Congress, AHRQ

Congress, DOD

Congress, GAO

Congress, NIDDK

Congress, NIH

Congress, NIH, AHRQ, VA, PCORI

Congress, NIH, FDA

Congress, NIH, NIDDK

Congress, NIH, NIDDK, VA, AHRQ, DOD

Congress, NIH, VA

Congress, NIMHD

Congress, President, NIH

Energy and Commerce Committee

ESCO

FDA

FDA, FSIS

HHS

HHS, Congress

NIDDK

NIDDK, Congress

NIEHS

NIH

NIH, Congress

NIH, Congress, NIDDK

NIH, CSR

NIH, HHS

NIH, National Institutes of Health, Congress

NIH, NHLBI, Congress

NIH, NIDDK

NIH, NIDDK, Congress

NQF

NQF, CMS

OMB, NIH, NIA

OPTN

PCORI

UNOS

US Preventive Services Task Force

White House

ASN Comments By Topic

2014 ESRD PPS/QIP PROPOSED RULE

21st Century Cures

Accountable Care Organizations

Acute Kidney Injury

AHRQ, appropriations, Congress

AHRQ, budget

AHRQ, Congress, budget, funding, 2016

AHRQ, Iron, Anemia

AHRQ, renal cancer

ALLOCATION SYSTEM

appropriations, budget, Congress

appropriations, HHS

ASN Letter to the CDC on Collecting Patients' Serum Creatinine Levels

ASN, NKF Joint FDA Food Labeling Comment Letter

Budget

budget, appropriations, NIH, NIDDK, research, funding

budget, Congress

budget, Congress, NIH, NIDDK, VA, AHRQ, DOD

bundling

Care delivery

Care delivery reform

Chronic Care

CMMI

CMMI, CMS

CMS, ESRD, QIP, PPS

CMS, ICD 10, 2728

CMSS, Sunshine

Comment Letter

Complex Medical Management Model, CMMI, CMS

Conditions for Coverage

Congress, 21st Century Cures

Congress, AHRQ, budget

Congress, Appropriations

Congress, budget

Congress, budget, NIH, NIDDK

Congress, DOD, research

Congress, GAO

Congress, NIDDK, budget

Congress, NIH, AHRQ, VA, PCORI, travel

Congress, NIH, Budget

Congress, NIH, FDA, 21st Century Cures

Congress, NIH, FDA, research

Congress, NIH, NIDDK, budget

Congress, NIH, salary cap

Congress, NIH, SBIR, STTR

Congress, NIMHD, budget

Congress, President, NIH

Congress, Research

Congress, travel

Congressional Communication

Deficit Reducation, Medical Research

ESA

ESCO

ESCO, CMS, ACO

ESRD

ESRD PPS and QIP Proposed Rule

ESRD Program

FDA

FDA Changes to ESA Label

FDA, Drugs, Approval

FDA, FSIS

GME

H.R. 1428

Health reform

HHS, Congress, appropriations

HHS, HIPPA

home dialysis

HOPE Act

human subjects research, NIH, HHS

Immigration

Innovation

MACRA

MAP

NDD, non-defense discretionary spending, medical research, NIH, NIDDK, Congress

New Guidance on Part D Drugs for Dialysis Patients

NIDDK, appropriations

NIDDK, Congress, budget

niehs; strategic plan; research; environment; public comments

NIH

NIH, Conflicts of Interest

NIH, Congress, appropriations

NIH, Congress, budget, appropriations

NIH, Congress, NIDDK, budget

NIH, CSR, KMBD, UGPP

NIH, FDA, 21st Century Cures

NIH, IRB

NIH, National Institutes of Health, medical research, congress

NIH, NHLBI, Congress, budget

NIH, NIDDK, budget

NIH, NIDDK, Congress, budget

NIH, NIDDK, Sequestration

NIH, research

NQF Measures Application Partnership

NQF, MAP

NQF, measures

OMB, NIH, NIA, budget, appropriations

Patient Safety

Physician Fee Schedule

Physician payment

PPS

QIP, PPS, CMS

QIP, PPS, ESRD, CMS

Quality

quality incentive program

Quality measure development

Quality measurement

Quality Measures

research

Retain Immuno Protected Class

SGR

SGR, sgr repeal

SRR, NQF

Super Committee

Telehealth

Telehealth, Telemedicine, home dialysis

Top Ten ASN Advocacy Victories in 2015

Transplant

Transplant, UNOS, Kidney Allocation

transplantation

travel restrictions

US Preventive Services Task Force, screening

Vascular Access

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