Medicare Advantage and Access to Living Donor Kidney Transplantation among Older Patients Receiving Dialysis.
2026-08-05, Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN (10.1681/ASN.0000001209) (online)Stephen O Pastan, Kelsey Drewry, Kevin H Nguyen, Joel T Adler, Adam S Wilk, Arnold E Kuk, Katherine Ross-Driscoll, and Adam Bingaman (?)
Medicare Advantage enrollment is rising among older adults with kidney failure. Compared with Traditional Medicare, the contracted provider networks and utilization management of Medicare Advantage may introduce friction in transplant evaluation and living donor coordination, potentially restricting access for vulnerable beneficiaries. We examined whether Medicare Advantage is associated with access to living donor kidney transplantation and whether associations vary by rurality, age, or county-level social vulnerability.
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