End stage renal disease and Medicare

Evaluates programs' effectiveness in providing care for ESRD patients, reimbursing physicians with fair monthly capitation payments, and reducing government expenditures, and Medicare's efforts to improve access to and quality of dialysis and increase the supply of kidneys available for do...

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Published in:Health care financing review 2003-01, Vol.24 (4), p.1-110
Main Author: Greer, Joel W
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Beneficiaries
Capitation
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (U.S.)
Chronically ill
Disease management
Donation of organs, tissues, etc
Enrollments
Fee-for-Service Plans - economics
Finance
Health administration
Health care expenditures
Health maintenance organizations
Health Maintenance Organizations - economics
Health policy
Health Policy - economics
Health Policy - legislation & jurisprudence
Hemodialysis
HMOs
Humans
Kidney disease
Kidney diseases
Kidney Failure, Chronic - economics
Kidney Failure, Chronic - therapy
Kidney Transplantation
Medicaid
Medical care
Medical service
Medicare
Medicare - legislation & jurisprudence
Patient satisfaction
Pilot Projects
Prospective payment systems
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Quality of life
Renal Dialysis - economics
Renal Dialysis - standards
Renal replacement therapy
Risk Adjustment
Transplants
Transplants & implants
United States
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Summary:Evaluates programs' effectiveness in providing care for ESRD patients, reimbursing physicians with fair monthly capitation payments, and reducing government expenditures, and Medicare's efforts to improve access to and quality of dialysis and increase the supply of kidneys available for donation; 8 articles; US.
ISSN:0195-8631
1554-9887