Dialysis Facility Reports

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.

Sample Report is an example of a Dialysis Facility Report. This Report is intended to serve as an example.  It is not the DFR for any particular unit.

Guide to the Dialysis Facility Reports is a document providing a detailed description of the contents of the report that will help facilities to interpret the data summaries.

List of Diagnostic Codes is a detailed list of ICD-9 diagnostic codes used to identify hospitalizations and comorbidities in the Dialysis Facility Reports.

Technical Notes on the Standardized Mortality Ratio is a document describing the statistical methods used in the DFRs. If you are interested in calculating the SMR by hand, you will also need (this Microsoft Excel workbook).

Dialysis Facility Reports Secure Site provides facilities access to their DFR and is the vehicle for submitting comments during the comment period each year. The site is maintained by Arbor Research.