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Medicare Needs Reimbursement Stability for Vascular Access

I am a dialysis patient advocate because I want to give kidney patients their voice and their choice in kidney disease treatment. I have lived through the experience of a loved one who needed access to survive. My late husband was a pioneer, best known for dialyzing along with 3…

Dialysis

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Medicare Needs Reimbursement Stability for Vascular Access
Medicare Needs Reimbursement Stability for Vascular Access

Aug 9

Dialysis patients’ access to care is being threatened

There is a healthcare access crisis in this country due to consolidation of healthcare facilities, which is being exacerbated by a workforce shortage and the lingering effects of COVID-19. The situation will only become more dire with a new proposal from the the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that…

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Dialysis patients’ access to care is being threatened
Dialysis patients’ access to care is being threatened

Dec 6, 2021

Dialysis Patients Shouldn’t Be Forced to Make “Inhuman” Choice

On March 25, 1966, at a press conference in Chicago before his speech at the second convention of the Medical Committee for Human Rights, Martin Luther King Jr declared: “Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman.” He was speaking, of…

Vascularaccessdevice

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Dialysis Patients Shouldn’t Be Forced to Make “Inhuman” Choice
Dialysis Patients Shouldn’t Be Forced to Make “Inhuman” Choice
Terry Foust Litchfield

Terry Foust Litchfield

Terry Foust Litchfield spent many years in the healthcare industry as a patient advocate.

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