Patients who don't follow treatments hurt dialysis clinics' pay
Monday, October 24, 2011 - 17:00
in Health & Medicine
Dialysis clinics that provide care to kidney disease patients who cannot or will not follow their prescribed treatments will be penalized under a new Medicare payment system, according to a study appearing in an upcoming issue of the Journal of the American Society Nephrology (JASN). The results suggest that the new system could widen disparities in care.