I recently received a call from my Fresenius Kidney Care PD Home Therapy Clinic indicating that Medicare has requested ALL PD patients to submit to a Kt/V test this month. I have had so many kt/vs since January that I have started to complain. Kt/V tests are usually required only every 3 months from a patient. I did one in June 2020. However, the Clinic said for this "Medicare-required Kt/V", I did not have to be bring in a 24-hour urine sample but only the drain bags from the treatment from the night before the appointment. This too is confusing to me because an accurate test for dialysis effectiveness needs the urine and the drain bags to get the results of the KT/V.
Has anyone else been told that Medicare made this request for ALL Dialysis Clinics (or just FMC?) PD patients?
I changed Fresenius clinics in May 2020 because I no longer wanted to go to a clinic with hemodialysis patients being the majority. The clinic, which was also Fresenius, did not have very good protocols in place for keeping patients safe to the Corona virus pandemic.
If anyone has heard this Medicare "demand" (which has never occurred in the 4.5 yrs I've been on PD), please let me know.