ASN End-Stage Renal Disease Task Force: perspective on prospective payments for renal dialysis facilities.

John R. Sedor,* Suzanne Watnick, Uptal D. Patel, ** Alfred Cheung, William Harmon, Jonathan Himmelfarb, Thomas H. Hostetter, Jula K. Inrig, ¶¶ Rajnish Mehrotra,*** Emily Robinson, Paul C. Smedberg, and Rachel N. Shaffer, for the American Society of Nephrology ESRD Task Force *Department of Medicine, MetroHealth System Campus, Cleveland, Ohio; Case Western Reserve University Center for the Study of Kidney Disease and Biology, Cleveland, Ohio; School of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio; Portland VA Medical Center, Portland, Oregon; Duke Clinical Research Institute and Departments of Medicine and **Pediatrics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Division of Nephrology & Hypertension, University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City, Utah; Department of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts; Kidney Research Institute, Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington; Department of Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York; Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas; ***Department of Medicine, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA, Torrance, California; Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California; Division of Renal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; and American Society of Nephrology, Washington, DC