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Lekha Tummalapalli

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Homelessness and Kidney Disease

September 25, 2018

Doing my nephrology training in San Francisco, CA has made it clear to me that homelessness is an essential health policy issue. 553,742 people experience homelessness in the United States as of January 2017. While San Francisco has…

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ESRD Quality Incentive Program

February 19, 2018

Quality Incentives for ESRD Care Reimbursing physicians based on the quality of care they provide is not a new idea. In the 1700s B.C. in ancient Babylon, Hammurabi’s Code stated “If a physician operates on a man for…

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