“…1 In this issue of JASN, Ku and colleagues use Medicare claims and United States Renal Data System data to explore the association between the specialty of the operator (categorized as vascular surgery, general surgery, interventional radiology, or interventional nephrology) and the risk of requiring a follow-up procedure within 90 days among adult PD-naïve, Medicare-insured individuals whose PD catheter was placed between 2010 and 2019. 2 Follow-up procedures were defined as PD catheter revision, replacement, or removal; the use of PD at 90 days was also explored. Percutaneous, laparoscopic, and open dissection methods were all included.…”