Kidney Today Blog

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...

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...

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

Despite the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the American Kidney Fund (AKF) was still able to successfully advocate throughout 2021 for policies tha...

LaVarne Burton, American Kidney Fund President and CEO, participated in The Atlantic Health Summit in a panel discussion on "The Power of Patient Advocacy....

The Biden administration recently withdrew an unreleased draft rule on end-stage renal disease conditions of coverage that was expected to address the controver...