NKF Launches Your Treatment, Your Choice

NEW YORK, NY--Helping patients make informed choices about their own health is the rationale behind the new Medicare pre-dialysis education benefit and NKF has developed a comprehensive curriculum to assist professionals in providing this patient education. NKF’s newest program, Your Treatment, Your Choice was designed to meet CMS guidelines for reimbursement under the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 (MIPPA), and is free to qualified professionals, including physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners and clinical nurse specialist.

Your Treatment, Your Choice offers a comprehensive adult education approach, and includes all the materials needed for implementation and evaluation such as an implementation guide, detailed lesson plans, outcomes data collection tools and a variety of practical tools that actively involve and motivate the patient to reinforce learning, such as “Check Yourself!” word games, puzzles, quizzes, “Take Home” handouts and educational checklists. All materials are presented in downloadable format on a CD-ROM.

For more information or to register for Your Treatment, Your Choice, visit www.kidney.org/ytyc