title: Medicare's ESRD program, Part 2: Transplantation.
abstract: In Part 1 of this discussion (Long, H. "Medicare's ESRD Program, Part 1: Dialysis. "Physician Executive 15(2):24-26, March-April 1989), the focus was on the various forms of dialysis for patients with end stage renal disease (ESRD). In this article, we turn our attention to the alternative therapy-transplantation.
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D003956:Dialysis / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007676:Kidney Failure, Chronic / Q000191:economics*; D016030:Kidney Transplantation; D006278:Medicare / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D015397:Program Evaluation; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States