End-stage renal disease : CMS should monitor access to and quality of dialysis care promptly after implementation of new bundled payment system : report to congressional requesters.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.)--Rules and practice.

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (U.S.).

Hemodialysis--Patients--Economic aspects.

Hemodialysis.

Hemodialysis--Patients--Medical care--Government policy--United States.

Medicare--Economic aspects.

Medicare.

Kidney Failure, Chronic--economics.

Medicare--economics.

Dialysis--economics.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Kidney Failure, Chronic--economics.

Medicare--economics.

Dialysis--economics.

Genre:

Rules and practice.

Rules.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (iii, 66 pages) : illustrations, charts

Other Title:

CMS should monitor access to and quality of dialysis care promptly after implementation of new bundled payment system

Place of Publication:

[Washington D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2010]

Contents:

Letter

Appendix I objectives, scope, and methodology

Appendix II GAO data collection instrument on dose of dialysis related drugs

Appendix III Medicare expenditures for injectable ESRD drugs by demographic characters

Appendix IV detailed results from data collection instrument on dose of dialysis-related drugs

Appendix V comments from the centers of Medicare & Medicaid services

Appendix VI GAO contact and staff acknowledgments

Tables

Figures.

Notes:

Title from title caption screen (GAO, viewed July 8, 2010).

"March 2010."

Includes bibliographical references.

"GAO-10-295."

OCLC:

651817041