Paper: Dialysis patients not told of transplants
US News • September 2009 • Views: 415
A Pittsburgh newspaper says it has found that thousands of kidney patients in the United States start dialysis without first being told of kidney transplants that would be cheaper and lead to longer lives…
The newspaper says kidney transplants add an average of 10 years to a patient’s life and that a transplanted kidney costs Medicare about $50,000 less than treating a patient using dialysis.