A Comparison of US Medicare Expenditures for Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis.
Jennifer M KaplanJingbo NiuVivian HoWolfgang C WinkelmayerKevin F EricksonPublished in: Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN (2022)
From the perspective of the Medicare program, savings associated with PD in patients ≥67 years have remained unchanged, despite rapid growth in the use of this dialysis modality. Total dialysis expenditures for the two modalities converged over time, whereas nondialysis expenditures diverged.