How Medicare Secondary Payer Act impacts federal spending on dialysis

The federal government’s dialysis expenditures may be impacted by the Medicare Secondary Payer Act, according to study data published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. The Medicare Secondary Payer Act, originally enacted in 1980 and extended to end-stage kidney disease in 1981, with the coordination period lengthened to its current 30 months in 1997, established employer