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kidney transplant
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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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Failing Fla. transplant program misled media, employees, patients
Writing in the The Florida Times-Union, reporter Jeremy Cox used public records requests to find that a kidney transplant program…
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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,…
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Kidney swap connects six in small Mo. town
Joy Robertson of KOLR-Springfield, Mo., tells the story of the coincidences and generosity that led to six residents of Licking,…
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Why aren’t some on dialysis referred for transplants?
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reporters Andrew Conte and Luis Fabregas have released the results of an extensive investigation into kidney transplant and…