Category: Kidney
Calls Grow For Medicare To Cover Anti-Rejection Drugs After Kidney Transplant
Medicare has covered transplant patients who had end-stage renal disease. But coverage ends after 36 months for those younger than 65.
Using Obamacare Authority, Trump Aims To Shift Dialysis Care To Patients’ Homes
The initiative aims to increase the number of patients getting dialysis at home and double the annual number of kidneys available for transplants.
Dialysis patients overoptimistic about their life expectancy, UW study finds.
Only one in 10 dialysis patients survey were aware that their average life expectancy was less than five years.
Northwest Kidney Centers to open new dialysis clinic in south Everett
Clinic is scheduled to open in late 2020 in the Everett Mall Office Park in south Everett.
Ballot initiative seeks to limit dialysis centers’ profits
The question is whether a California ballot initiative to limit the profit of dialysis clinics will protect lives or end them.