Better Care for Chronic Kidney Disease is Less Expensive Care
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Chronic kidney disease is a very dangerous, expensive, and growing problem in the United States. The greatest risk factors for this problem are hypertension, diabetes, and aging. The annual cost for patients with CKD who are not on dialysis in the Medicare system is $81 billion and that represents 22% of Medicare fee-for-service spending. Spending for this group of patients increased by 7% in just one year. It is growing faster than the cost of treating diabetes and congestive heart failure because the CKD population is growing more rapidly. If a patient with diabetes has CKD at
Better Care for Chronic Kidney Disease is Less Expensive Care
Better Care for Chronic Kidney Disease is…
Better Care for Chronic Kidney Disease is Less Expensive Care
Chronic kidney disease is a very dangerous, expensive, and growing problem in the United States. The greatest risk factors for this problem are hypertension, diabetes, and aging. The annual cost for patients with CKD who are not on dialysis in the Medicare system is $81 billion and that represents 22% of Medicare fee-for-service spending. Spending for this group of patients increased by 7% in just one year. It is growing faster than the cost of treating diabetes and congestive heart failure because the CKD population is growing more rapidly. If a patient with diabetes has CKD at