A Comparison of Payments to a For-profit Dialysis Firm From Government and Commercial Insurers

Christopher P Childers; Jill Q Dworsky; Gerald Kominski; Melinda Maggard-Gibbons

doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.0431

A Comparison of Payments to a For-profit Dialysis Firm From Government and Commercial Insurers

JAMA Intern Med. 2019 Aug 1;179(8):1136-1138. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2019.0431.

Authors

Christopher P Childers¹, Jill Q Dworsky¹, Gerald Kominski², Melinda Maggard-Gibbons¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California.
² UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California.

Abstract

This study assesses differences in payments from government and commercial insurers to dialysis clinics using data from a single for-profit organization.

Grants and funding

T32 HS000046/HS/AHRQ HHS/United States