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MEDICARE is now paying $3 million a week for health care expenses of over 15,000 people who have chronic kidney disease, according to Mrs. Hazel F, Crumpton, social security district manager in Winchester.
Medicare health insurance became available July 1, 1973 to workers insured under social security, or their dependents, who have chronic kidney disease. Medicare coverage begins the fourth month after renal dialysis (artificial kidney treatment) starts. “The coverage lasts for 12 months after dialysis ends or the patient has a successful kidney transplant,” she said.
Medicare also helps pay for x wide variety of the health care expenses of people 65 and over and disabled people of any age
95.9%