Nearly half of dialysis technicians in California failing newly required skills test. Print
California Watch: Medicare and Medicaid are key funders of the service. Those federal programs decided in 2008 that all dialysis technicians must pass a test proving that they know what they’re doing.But the test has proven challenging. The California Dialysis Council, which has administered its test to about 1,200 people so far, is seeing a pass rate of about 56 percent, according to the group’s executive director.

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