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Help For
Kidney
Patients
Almost every person in the Rappahannock area who has permanent kidney failure and needs maintenance dialysis treatment or a kidney transplant is eligible for Medicare health insurance. Bruce A. Hundley social security manager in Culpeper, said recently.
Medicare helps pay for kidney transplant surgery and related inpatient hospital services. It also covers outpatient maintenance dialysis and helps pay for doctors' services including surgeons’ services for transplants, bptpatient selfdialysis training, and horn dialysis equipment, supplies and periodic support services. Medicare also helps cover the costs of a donor for kidney transplant surgery.
To be eligible for Medicare because of kidney failure, a person must have worked under social security long enough to be insured, from 1 '/j to 7V« years depending on age. or be the wife, husband, or dependent child of an insured worker.
Only the family member with kidney failure is eligible for Medicare: others in the family are not, Hundley said.
For people with kidney failure. Medicare protection generally begins with the third month after the month
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