AAKP Government Links

AHPSR--Hemodialysis Patient Experience of Care Survey

Developing Dialysis Facility-Specific Performance Measures for Public Reporting (2002) (Adobe Acrobat required)

Dialysis Facilities: Problems Remain in Ensuring Compliance with Medicare Quality Standards GAO (October 2003) (Adobe Acrobat required)

End Stage Renal Disease and Medicare

ESRD Clinical Performance Measures (CPMs) Project

Government Accounting Office

Improving the Care of ESRD Patients: A Success Story (Adobe Acrobat required)

Medicare Dialysis Facilities: Beneficiary Access Stable and Problems in Payment System Being Addressed (June 2004) (Adobe Acrobat required)

Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (Medpac)

Medicare Quality of Care: Oversight of Kidney Dialysis Facilities Needs Improvement (June 2000) (Adobe Acrobat required)

Report to Congress: Medicare Payment Policy (March 2004) Section 3E, Outpatient Dialysis Services (Adobe Acrobat required)

Report to Congress: Modernizing the outpatient dialysis payment system (October 23, 2003)  (Adobe Acrobat Required)