ESRD Population Grows Faster Than Projected

* Projected

Number of ESRD Beneficiaries

Source: US Congress Green Book, 1998; General Accounting Office “Enrollment Growth and Payment Practices for Kidney Dialysis Services,” November 1995

1998

• ESRD Program will

cost Medicare $11B

• 287,169 qualified Beneficiaries

• Per Capita Cost:

$38,334

*

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