Benchmark: Medicare ESRD Payment System and Quality Program Updates for CY 2026

Take this benchmark to assess how much you would benefit from taking the course on the CMS Proposed Rule for Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) PPS, Quality Incentive Program (QIP), and Treatment Choices (ETC) Model (CY 2026). In a few minutes, you’ll gauge whether you can explain why these changes are being proposed, who they affect, and how to translate them into operational choices.

What you’ll get from this benchmark:
– A quick read on your ability to weigh trade-offs (payment accuracy vs. burden, access vs. cost) the rule introduces.
– A sense of how prepared you are to plan budgets, staffing, and workflows under the proposed PPS updates (including NAPA), AKI payment alignment, and QIP measure changes.
– Insight into whether you can turn policy into action: prioritize quality strategies after measure removals, prepare for ETC termination, and engage effectively in the public comment process.

If these prompts feel tricky or you’re split between plausible answers, the full course will help you: make sense of the intent behind the payment and quality shifts; anticipate distributional impacts; protect equity while reducing burden; and craft targeted, data-backed public comments that can shape the final rule.