Aside from rallying for more patient-oriented reimbursement and removing the red tape involved so that providers can provide home-based dialysis care, medical device manufacturers must also offer a turnkey solution for home-based therapy that includes servicing the device in a door-to-door model.
Outset Medical, a San Jose-based company making portable dialysis machines, filed the initial paperwork for an IPO. The company has not yet set a price range for its stock, but said it plans to raise roughly $100 million.
Health systems have spent billions on portals while investments in modernizing the voice channel — the dominant preference of healthcare consumers — have taken a backseat.
A proposed rule by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services would expand payments for new dialysis machines when used at-home.
CVS Health's new HemoCare device would open up the at-home market for hemodialysis, which uses an artificial kidney device to perform the procedure and has traditionally been difficult to provide outside of a clinical setting.