Just when you think your dialysis unit is doing all they can for you ----- mortality rates at for-profit units are 20% higher than at non-profit units.
non profit clinics usually are smaller and are affiliated with hospital based units . They also tend to only take insured patients at a higher rate and thus improving there demegraphic for health care patients over poor and the medicare providers who cant afford even to buy suppliments and thus have poorer outcomes
Since this issue was first rasied four years ago, I see the original author provided no source.
Do you know the difference between mortality rates at profit vs non-profit centres, tech2?
I can certainly see your point about non-profits not being able to be selective about whom they take in, but can I ask, too, what suppliments/supplements they are being deprived of?
Even old subjects worth revisiting. Thanks.
Michael
Posts: 19 | Location: Vancouver, BC | Registered: 18 September 2007
I completely disagree with the fact that non-profit companies only take insured patients. I work for a non-profit dialysis provider and would say that 85% of our patients are medicare/medicaid patients. The profit dialysis companies go out of their way to achieve higher insured patients vs medicare/medicaid patients ratios not the other way around. I have worked for both profit and non-profit dialysis providers now. I would have to say that the care at either are pretty similar with the exception that the non-profit clinics tend to give more power to the physicians to care for their patients regardless of cost (within reason) unlike the profit units where the bottom line plays more of a roll into the patient care.
