
Advocating for All Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease
Chronic kidney disease is the fastest-growing noncontagious disease in the United States. On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Mike Spigler, vice president of patient support and education for the American Kidney Fund, who is spearheading the Unknown Causes of Kidney Disease Project, which aims to help underserved patients get to the root cause of their kidney disease, while also helping to solve this mystery for a broader patient population.
Entering its 51st year, the American Kidney Fund has made it its mission to help all patients affected by
In December of 2020, the American Kidney Fund convened the Unknown Causes of Kidney Disease Summit, bringing together government agencies, industry, patients, researchers, and rare disease organizations, hoping that by helping underserved patients get to the root cause of their kidney disease, they could also help solve this mystery for a broader patient population. From this, a roadmap was born for what would become the
On this episode of Managed Care Cast, we speak with Mike Spigler, vice president of patient support and education for the American Kidney Fund, who is spearheading the Unknown Causes of Kidney Disease Project. He addresses why patients are the key to all the American Kidney Fund hopes to accomplish, using the organization’s voice to address rare kidney diseases, and emphasizing the necessity of policy change for care coverage support, including for genetic testing.
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