Kidney Today Blog

Find out about six provisions in the New Era for Preventing End-Stage Kidney Disease Act that will help people with rare kidney diseases.

Welcome to our What's happening in the states blog series, where we provide monthly legislative updates on what the American Kidney Fund (AKF) is working o...

On May 4 - or May the Fourth, widely-known as Star Wars Day - AKF hosted its annual Kidney Action Summit, connecting Ambassadors and their elected officials to ...

Copay assistance programs were designed to help people with chronic illnesses who struggling financially afford their medications. However, insurers' accum...

The No Surprises Act went into effect on Jan. 2, 2022, providing health care consumer with protections from 'surprise medical bills.'

On April 26, Congresswoman Robin Kelly (D-IL) introduced the Health Equity and Accountability Act (HEAA), or H.R. 7585, which aims to make our health care syste...

Welcome to our What's happening in the states blog series, where we provide monthly legislative updates on what the American Kidney Fund (AKF) is working o...

When AKF Ambassador Beth Burbridge saw her neighbor's Facebook post trying to find a kidney donor for his son Jackson, she thought, 'What if this was ...

AKF recently responded to an RFI from CMS about how CMS can improve the organ donation and transplantation processes, the quality of dialysis care and ways to a...