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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY
Volume 23, Issue 8, Pages 1291-1298Publisher
AMER SOC NEPHROLOGY
DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2011111094
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- Fresenius Medical Care
- Baxter Healthcare
- Bellco
- Amgen
- Hofman-Laroche
- Nipro
- Janssen
- Genzyme
- Shire
- Baxter
- Takeda
- Leo
- Merck
- Novartis
- Ortho Biotech
- Vifor
- Litholink
- KAI
- DaVita
- Mitsubishi Tanabe
- Novashunt
- Reata
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Reimbursement for chronic dialysis consumes a substantial portion of healthcare costs for a relatively small proportion of the total population. Each country has Si unique reimbursement system that attempts to control rising costs. Thus, comparing the reimbursement systems between countries might be helpful to find solutions to minimize costs to society without jeopardizing quality of treatment and outcomes. We conducted a survey of seven countries to compare crude reimbursement for various dialysis modalities and evaluated additional factors, such as inclusion of drugs or physician payments in the reimbursement package, adjustment in rates for specific patient subgroups, and pay for performance therapeutic thresholds. The comparison examines the United States, the province of Ontario in Canada, and five European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom). Important differences between countries exist, resulting in as much as a 3.3-fold difference between highest and lowest reimbursement rates for chronic: hemodialysis. Differences persist even when our data were adjusted for per capita gross domestic product. Reimbursement for peritoneal dialysis is lower in most countries except Germany and the United States. The United Kingdom is the only country that has implemented an incentive if patients use an arteriovenous fistula. Although home hemodialysis (prolonged or daily dialysis) allows greater flexibility and better patient outcomes, reimbursement is only incentivized in The Nether. lands. Unfortunately, it is not yet clear that such differences save money or improve quality of care. Future research should focus on directly testing both outcomes.
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