Abstract
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) has occupied a unique place in the US healthcare system since 1972, when Social Security extended Medicare coverage to patients under age 65 with ESRD or chronic kidney failure who require dialysis or a kidney transplant (PL 92-603). Since that time, more than a million such patients have entered the Medicare entitlement program.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 13-15 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Postgraduate medicine |
| Volume | 108 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| State | Published - Jan 1 2000 |