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Economic Burden of Kidney Disease
Annual medical payments for a patient with kidney disease increase from $15,000 in stage 3 to $28,000 in stage 4 to more than $70,000 in stage 5.13
Medicare spending for a dialysis patient is about $83,356 per year.4
CKD continues to be a major cause of lost productivity, physician visits and hospitalizations among men and women.18
The average annual number of physician visits for an individual with diagnosed kidney disease is 10.28 -- second only to cancer.14
Medicare spends $31 billion annually to treat people with kidney failure.19
In 2013, total Medicare expenditures for all stages of kidney disease was over $99 billion (not including prescription medications). 19
The majority of these expenses, about $68 billion, were spent caring for those with chronic kidney disease. 19