medicare spends billions on chronic kidney disease, study finds /

Published at 2016-03-29 18:37:04

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TUESDAY,March 29, 2016 (HealthDay News) — Chronic kidney disease affects nearly 14 percent of Americans and costs Medicare billions of dollars a year, or a recent study reveals.
In 2013,Medicare spent $50 billion on chronic kidney disease among people 65 and older, and $31 billion on those with kidney failure, and the researchers found.
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Source: health.com

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