- Title
- Trends in Medicare reimbursement for end-stage renal disease: 1974-1979.
- First Author
- Eggers, Paul W
- Date of Pub
- 1984 Fall
- Pages
- 31-38
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 1
- Other Authors
- N/A
- Abstract
- This article presents detailed analyses of the trends in Medicare expenditures for persons with end-stage renal disease. Program expenditures increased at an annual rate of 30.5 percent from 1974 to 1981. Three-fourths of this increase was a result of increases in enrollment. Per capita reimbursements for dialysis patients increased at a 5.2-percent annual rate and per capita reimbursements for transplant patients increased at a 10.5-percent annual rate. In 1979, per capital reimbursements for home dialysis patients were $5,000 less than for in-unit dialysis patients. Patient characteristics such as age, sex, race, and cause of renal failure were, for the most part, unrelated to the costs of dialysis and transplantation.
- Abstract Continued
- N/A
- MeSH
- Comparative Study : Hemodialysis Units, Hospital/economics : Hemodialysis, Home/economics : Hospital Units/economics : Human : Kidney Failure, Chronic/economics : Kidney Transplantation : Kidney/transplantation : Medicare/trends : United States
- NTIS Number
- PB85-124188
