Provision of Temporary Access to Inpatient Hemodialysis to Uninsured Patients Initiating Hemodialysis.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Uninsured patients who initiate hemodialysis (HD) typically cannot be placed in outpatient HD centers until their insurance applications are processed. Allowing these patients temporary access to an inpatient HD unit as outpatients could shorten their hospital length of stay (LOS).

Objective

To evaluate the association of hospital LOS with a first-in-state model in which an inpatient HD unit received regulatory program flex approval to provide temporary, transitional outpatient access to uninsured patients.

Design, setting, and participants

This quasi-experimental, pre-post quality improvement study was conducted at 1 intervention hospital and 2 control hospitals within the safety net of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services among uninsured i

SUBMITTER: Banerjee J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12628098 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature