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The New York Times has a story about how the American Kidney Fund was giving financial assistance only to those patients at clinics that donated to the Fund. The largest donors (and recipients) were Fresenius and DaVita.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/25/business/kidney-fund-seen-insisting-on-donations-contrary-to-government-deal.html Kidney Fund Seen Insisting on Donations, Contrary to Government Deal By KATIE THOMAS and REED ABELSON DEC. 25, 2016

The American Kidney Fund is one of the largest charities in the country, with an annual budget of over $250 million. Its marquee program helps pay insurance premiums for thousands of people who need dialysis...

Under an agreement with the federal government, the Kidney Fund must distribute the aid based on a patient’s financial need. But the charity has resisted giving aid to patients at clinics that do not donate money to the fund the charity pushed back on workers at clinics that had not donated money, discouraging them from signing up their patients for assistance. Until recently, the Kidney Fund’s guidelines even said clinics should not apply for patient aid if the company had not donated to the charity.

[Fresenius and DaVita provide nearly 80 percent of the charity’s funding.]

The Kidney Fund’s payments are part of an unusual deal it made with the government and the dialysis industry 20 years ago. The arrangement allows the dialysis companies to avoid violating anti-kickback laws. It allows dialysis clinics to donate to the Kidney Fund, treat patients whose insurance premiums are paid by the charity and then collect money from the insurers for those patients’ treatments...

LaVarne A. Burton, the Kidney Fund’s chief executive, said that the charity treated all patients equally, and that the fund had never denied anyone assistance if they qualified financially.

-- Nbauman ( talk) 16:52, 26 December 2016 (UTC) reply