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Volume 1: Issue 4
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Publication Date:
01 Jul 2009
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22 Jun 2015

Medicare Policy Could Reduce Dialysis Access for African Americans

Study Raises New Concerns Over Proposed Fixed Payment Bundle

Timothy O’Brien
Volume/Issue:
Volume 1: Issue 4
Publication Date:
01 Jul 2009
Page:
1–5
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Two curious youths with urine flasks attend a group of physicians. Sparking curiosity about the kidneys could help spur young people to become nephrologists. See special section, p. 11.

Johannes de Ketham, Fasciculus Medicinae. In comincia el dignissimo Fasciculo de Medicina in Volgare. Venice: Giovanni & Gregorio di Gregorii, 5 Feb. 1493/4.

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) proposed fixed payment bundle system could have an unintended consequence—reduced access to dialysis for African Americans, suggests a study in the July Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Racial differences in hemoglobin levels and requirements for erythropoietin-stimulating
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