Experts say it's because more than 80 percent of the nearly 6,500 dialysis facilities nationally are owned by two for-profit companies, and they want to see a return on the money spent building and staffing those dialysis clinics. In other industry news: decisions on investments and donors for hospitals.
from Kaiser Health News http://bit.ly/2RmNs4C
January 28, 2019
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