Dialysis providers cope with dwindling payments.
For-profit providers of outpatient dialysis services are reporting growing profitability, opening more centers and treating more patients. That's in spite of shrinking Medicare reimbursement levels. The industry segment hasn't been as good to hospitals, which find themselves in a struggle to maintain their dialysis programs in the very same environment.
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