Medicare: Millions in End-Stage Renal Disease, Expenditures Shifted to Employer Health Plans

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Medicare: Millions in End-Stage Renal Disease, Expenditures Shifted to Employer Health Plans

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Author(s)

• Hansen, John C.
• Pasquier, Frank C.

Source(s)

• U.S. General Accounting Office (Washington, DC)

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Published 1992. 49 pages.

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