 In a statement on its website, the Kidney Fund called the article "factually incorrect and unfair," and said that they have never turned away a patient who was financially qualified to receive a grant, and that 40% of dialysis providers with patients receiving help don’t contribute anything to the Kidney Fund.The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) charged that dialysis providers steered patients to private insurance companies, which cost patients more, rather than to Medicaid and Medicare, which cost patients less but had lower reimbursements for the providers.The providers used the Kidney Fund's subsidies to help patients buy the more-expensive private insurance, according to the CMS.