Everyone has the right to receive a transplant
Non-coverage cases
Below there are an example of lack of coverage of a trasplant in USA but there are thousands all over the world.
Write here cases of non-coverage of patients in the waiting list .
Fight to ensure that transplants are free for all. It is unacceptable that someone who need a transplant dies for lack of coverage
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Mother of 8 battles failing health, Medicaid
Holloway is covered by Georgia Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor and disabled that's jointly funded by the state and federal governments.
When Katz asked Medicaid to approve the intestinal transplant, the state replied that it did not cover this surgery for patients 21 and older.
The federal government gives state Medicaid programs leeway on which transplants to approve. Georgia Medicaid allows transplants of kidney, liver, bone marrow and cornea for adults, according to the rejection letter sent to Katz. "Lung, bowel, pancreas and heart-lung transplants are not covered," the letter states.
Other states' Medicaid programs — which have their own coverage rules — approve intestinal transplants for people Holloway's age. "To my knowledge, most Medicaid programs cover it," says Dr. Douglas Farmer, head of the intestinal transplant program at UCLA.
The operation costs $200,000 to $400,000, doctors say. A year of nutritional intravenous feeding, as Holloway now requires, can cost $150,000, Farmer says.
"They could get out cheaper with a transplant,'' says Farmer, who says intestinal transplants can cost less than $200,000. Georgia Medicaid's ruling, he says, "is very surprising."
In Holloway's case, the Medicaid spending on IV treatment doesn't include the bills for four subsequent hospitalizations for infections. The intravenous feeding makes Holloway prone to infection, Katz says. Holloway has an abnormal blood-clotting condition that has caused the destruction of most of her small intestine.
Read more :
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/06/11/transplant_medicaid.html
Write here cases of non-coverage of patients in the waiting list .
Fight to ensure that transplants are free for all. It is unacceptable that someone who need a transplant dies for lack of coverage
..........................................................
Mother of 8 battles failing health, Medicaid
Holloway is covered by Georgia Medicaid, the health insurance program for the poor and disabled that's jointly funded by the state and federal governments.
When Katz asked Medicaid to approve the intestinal transplant, the state replied that it did not cover this surgery for patients 21 and older.
The federal government gives state Medicaid programs leeway on which transplants to approve. Georgia Medicaid allows transplants of kidney, liver, bone marrow and cornea for adults, according to the rejection letter sent to Katz. "Lung, bowel, pancreas and heart-lung transplants are not covered," the letter states.
Other states' Medicaid programs — which have their own coverage rules — approve intestinal transplants for people Holloway's age. "To my knowledge, most Medicaid programs cover it," says Dr. Douglas Farmer, head of the intestinal transplant program at UCLA.
The operation costs $200,000 to $400,000, doctors say. A year of nutritional intravenous feeding, as Holloway now requires, can cost $150,000, Farmer says.
"They could get out cheaper with a transplant,'' says Farmer, who says intestinal transplants can cost less than $200,000. Georgia Medicaid's ruling, he says, "is very surprising."
In Holloway's case, the Medicaid spending on IV treatment doesn't include the bills for four subsequent hospitalizations for infections. The intravenous feeding makes Holloway prone to infection, Katz says. Holloway has an abnormal blood-clotting condition that has caused the destruction of most of her small intestine.
Read more :
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/06/11/transplant_medicaid.html
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