Three of four docs surveyed said the health system should reimburse the expense of making those links.

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While it remains to be seen at what rate a post-Obamacare Medicare system will reimburse DaVita for dialysis expenses, the fact remains that Americans seem intent on making themselves future dialysis patients at a rapid enough clip to at least partially offset any such decrease.

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Their attitude is, well, people change jobs enough for us to pay for the preventive medicine now when the problem may not crop up for another 20 years and they'll be long out of our system, so we don't want to reimburse it because it will make things more costly.

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The overly-complicated codification system serves to increase the time between the formation of a claim and the time the insurance company must reimburse a physician on the claim.

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