Kidney Failure and the Federal Government

Richard A. Rettig and Norman G. Levinsky, Editors; Committee for the Study of the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease Program, Division of Health Care Services

• 1 Front Matter; 2 Part I: Overview, Summary; 3 Introduction; 4 Part II: Patients and Providers, Perspectives of ESRD Patients; 5 Ethical Issues; 6 The Patient Population; 7 The ESRD Patient Population: Special Groups; 8 Structure of the Provider Community; 9 Part III: Access, Access Problems of ESRD Patients; 10 Access to Kidney Transplantation; 11 Part IV: Reimbursement and Quality, Medicare ESRD Payment Policy; 12 Reimbusement Effects on Quality; 13 Outpatient Dialysis Reimbursement Issues; 14 Quality Assessment and Assurance; 15 Part V: Data and Research, Data Systems; 16 Research Needs; 17 Appendix A: Glossary; 18 Appendix B: Acronyms and Initialisms; 19 Appendix C: Commissioned Papers and Contractor Reports; 20 Appendix D: Survival Analysis Methods for the End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Program of Medicare; 21 Appendix E: Institute of Medicine ESRD Study Committee Public Hearing, May 5, 1989, Chicago, Illinois; 22 Appendix F: Institute of Medicine ESRD Study Committee Public Hearing on; 23 Appendix G: Institute of Medicine ESRD Study Committee Workshop on ESRD Staffing, November 3, 1989, Washington, D.C; 24 Appendix H: Institute of Medicine ESRD Study Committee Workshop on Kidney Transplantation, December 13, 1989, Washington, D.C; 25 Appendix I: Institute of Medicine ESRD Study Committee Workshop on Black and Other Nonwhite ESRD Patients, May 15, 1990, Washington, D.C; 26 Appendix J: Institute of Medicine ESRD Study Committee ESRD Patient Focus-Group Participants; 27 Index