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dialysis
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Medicare is experimenting with how it pays for kidney transplants
The troubled U.S. kidney transplant system is about to get an overhaul. Or at least, half of it is.
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Health care ballot measures challenge reporters to separate fact from fiction
In California, an initiative known as Proposition 8 asks voters to limit the revenue that kidney dialysis clinics can earn.…
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Disparities found in hospice care among older dialysis patients
While end-of-life planning may be more common by providers and patients, there are “substantial” racial disparities when it comes to…
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How South Africa rations dialysis
ProPublica’s Sheri Fink, M.D., went to South Africa, where panels in hospitals still decide which patients deserve the scarce dialysis…
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ProPublica releases ratings of 5,000 dialysis providers
On the heels of a successful FOIA request related to Robin Fields’ dialysis investigation, ProPublica has published a database evaluating…
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Dialysis program: Experiment in socialized medicine comes with high costs, risks
ProPublica’s Robin Fields has put together an artful examination of the nation’s Medicare-funded dialysis system. Part history and part investigation,…