Dialysis Facility Compare (DFC) and Dialysis Facility Reports
Dialysis Facility Compare (DFC) is an internet website that provides important information and resources for patients and family members who want to learn more about chronic kidney disease and dialysis.
It can help you:
- Search for Medicare certified dialysis facilities in any State
- Compare the services offered at dialysis facilities
- Compare the quality of dialysis facilities
- Find more information and links on kidney disease and dialysis treatments.
Look at the information on Dialysis Facility Compare carefully. Use it with other information as you compare facilities and decide where to get dialysis. You should also:
- Visit facilities that interest you
- Talk to dialysis facility staff and patients
- Talk to your doctor
- Contact kidney disease groups
The phone numbers and website for some of the kidney disease groups are found in the Resources section of the DFC website.
Dialysis Facility Compare also includes links to other websites with information about chronic kidney disease, hemodialysis, peritoneal dialysis, pediatric dialysis, kidney transplants, and family support.
For more information, visit
DFC online.
For spanish, go to Compare
el Cuidado de Salud en el Hogar.
The Dialysis Facility Reports (DFR) have been produced annually since 1995 under contract to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. An individual DFR is provided to each dialysis facility in the U.S. in the interest of stimulating quality improvement efforts and facilitating the quality improvement process. The DFRs allow comparisons of the characteristics of a particular facility’s patients, patterns of treatment, and patterns in transplantation, hospitalization, and mortality to local and national averages. If you have questions about the report for your facility, please call 734-998-9823.
The Reports are intended to be used by facilities in their quality improvement efforts. In addition, selected measures are publicly reported on the Dialysis Facility Compare website allowing dialysis patients to review and compare characteristics and quality information on dialysis facilities in the United States. State surveyors use data reported in the Dialysis Facility Reports to make decisions on which facilities to survey during the upcoming year.
For methodology, sample Dialysis Facility Report, Guide to the Dialysis Facility Reports and technical notes on the Standardized Mortality Ratio, please go to http://www.dialysisreports.org/Methodology.aspx