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Dialysis Facility Quality of Patient Care Star Rating Technical 

Project Title: Dialysis Facility Quality of Patient Care Star Rating

Dates:

The Technical Expert Panel (TEP) nomination period opens on Tuesday, December 23, 2025 and closes on Friday, January 23, 2026. Submit all nomination materials by the closing date.

Project Overview:

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has contracted with The University of Michigan Kidney Epidemiology and Cost Center (UM-KECC) to act as the quality measure developer and technical content support contractor for Dialysis Facility Care Compare (DFCC) on Medicare.gov, under the Kidney Disease Quality Measure Development, Maintenance, and Support contract (contract number 75FCMC18D0041, task order number 75FCMC23F0001). As part of this contract, UM-KECC convenes technical expert panels (TEPs) to obtain consumer and provider input for quality measure development and the Medicare.gov Dialysis Facility Quality of Patient Care Star Rating (Star Rating). We seek nominations from individuals with relevant clinical and methodological experience, expertise, and perspectives, including patients with chronic dialysis experience to serve on this TEP.

Seeking the Following Perspectives/Expertise:

We are seeking individuals with differing perspectives and areas of expertise, such as:

• Individuals with end-stage kidney disease and caregivers of individuals with ESKD
• Experts with subject matter expertise, e.g., scientists in nephrology care; clinicians and nurses; consumer testing; communication of star rating systems in patient perspectives
• Experts with methodological expertise, e.g., statisticians/biostatisticians with expertise in score or scale development, multivariate analysis, risk assessment, latent variable modeling
• Individuals with dialysis facility quality improvement expertise
• Individuals with health care disparities expertise

TEP Expected Time Commitment:

One to three meetings will be held via a secure video conferencing platform (e.g., Zoom). The duration of each meeting will be between 2 to 3 hours. Meetings are tentatively scheduled to begin in February 2026 with subsequent meetings occurring between March and April 2026.

Next Steps:

Please read the TEP Charter and complete the TEP Nomination Form. You may access these documents by selecting the title of each document:

• Star Rating TEP Charter
• Star Rating TEP Nomination Form

To submit a nomination, please send a completed nomination form, letter of interest, and CV to dialysisdata@umich.edu by Friday, January 23, 2026 at 5pm Eastern time. The nomination form can also be completed using this online form: https://forms.gle/7TCDWJxB2qTiiyY47