Washington, April 7 -- Congressman Vern Buchanan issued the following press release:
Congressman Vern Buchanan, Vice Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee and Chairman of the Health Subcommittee, and Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas), Ranking Member of the House Ways & Means Health Subcommittee, led a bipartisan letter (https://buchanan.house.gov/_cache/files/7/d/7d3c0ae8-6bd6-4288-b90e-8351b370f489/648ABB7B4A49634D2E264ADD478E12B021BBE6A2984F8805F50C6DB6E1911576.letter-to-cms-officer-of-kidney-health-and-transplantation.pdf) urging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish an Officer of Kidney Health and Transplantation to strengthen federal efforts to prevent and treat chronic kidney disease (CKD), which a...