RE: new question to heart txpfaciliti e s

[Guest guest]

If the patient is eligible for Medicare due to age or another disability

before being diagnosed with ESRD then they are exempt from the 30 month

coordination period. One of the exceptions to the rule.

a

Sutter Medical Center

Transplant Financial Coordinator

fax

E-mail: richarp@...

Kidney/stem cell

transplant

Hi!

I'm looking for coverage information regarding kidney/stem

cell

transplants in which the donors receives Neupogen and then pheresed

prior to

transplant.

Has anyone had experience with this?

L. Dodson

Transplant Credit Analyst

Univ of Pittsburgh Medical Center

phone:(412)647-6307

fax:(412)647-6049

email:dodsonml@...

[Guest guest]

nne,

If the patient's Medicare is already primary, then it remains primary when

he becomes eligible due to ESRD. But, if he still has active group coverage

primary and Medicare 2nd due to age, then his ESRD eligibility begins, he

WILL need to go thru the coordination period before Medicare becomes

primary, and the coord period begins the first date of the month of his ESRD

eligibility.

a

Kidney/stem cell

transplant

Hi!

I'm looking for coverage information regarding kidney/stem cell

transplants in which the donors receives Neupogen and then pheresed prior to

transplant.

Has anyone had experience with this?

L. Dodson

Transplant Credit Analyst

Univ of Pittsburgh Medical Center

phone:(412)647-6307

fax:(412)647-6049

email:dodsonml@...