paper: dialysis patients not told of transplants
roberthp | 16 october, 2009 20:15
thousands of kidney patients in the united states start dialysis without first being cheap timberland boots told of kidney transplants that would be cheaper and lead to longer lives, according to a four-month newspaper investigation published sunday.
the pittsburgh tribune-review reviewed records from the u.s. renal data system and found that some patients spend five years ugg boots sale receiving debilitating dialysis treatments before theyre put on the nations kidney transplant list, while others who could benefit from transplants never make the list.
the newspaper found that kidney timberland transplants add an average of 10 years to a patients life and that a transplanted kidney costs medicare about $50,000 less than treating a patient using ugg boots online dialysis. still, the newspaper found the biggest dialysis providers need large numbers of patients covered by insurance to offset lower payments the providers get for dialysis from medicare.
in the ideal world, were money not an issue and if everyone was honest, everyone would be referred to a transplant purple ugg cardy boots 5819 classic right away, dr. bruce kaplan told the newspaper. kaplan is chief of nephrology and medical director timberland boots uk of the abdominal transplant program at the university of arizona medical center.
the newspaper found that 32,000 of nearly 106,000 people who started treatment for kidney failure in 2006 werent told about the option of ugg sheepskin boots a transplant, according to the latest information from the centers for medicare and medicaid services. and purple ugg 5819 classic cardy only 16 percent of dialysis patients were listed for kidney transplants in 2006, even though the federal governments goal is 30 percent by next year.