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Total Medicare expenditures & expenditures per patient year, by modality.

table p.b total expenditures: period prevalent ESRD patients; patients with Medicare as secondary payor included. Totals are paid claims for all ESRD patients, starting at first ESRD service date & continuing until death or the end of the study period. Expenditures per patient year: period prevalent ESRD patients; patients with Medicare as secondary payor excluded. Modalities determined using Model 2 methodology,
as described in Appendix A.