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End Stage Kidney Disease: Costs and Treatment
Written by Neil Kurtzman | 16th March 2016About 1 million people in the US have End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Treatment is divided roughly 70/30 between dialysis and kidney transplantation. The annual cost of the ESRD program, almost all of which is funded by Medicare, is more than $48 billion. It costs about $89,000 a year to care for a dialysis patient. The…
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