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« Reply #25 on: June 01, 2007, 09:02:48 AM »

Medicare pays for 80% of what is allowed billable by medicare. The other 20% is either paid out of pocket by the patient or from a secondary insurance like medicaid or a supplement. Most of the time the 20% is written off by the dialysis company.

It depends on which state you're in.
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