Treatment for kidney failure is expensive, but Federal health insurance plans pay much of the cost, usually up to 80 percent. Often, private insurance or state programs pay the rest. Your social worker can help you locate resources for financial assistance. For more information, see the National...
Our care coordinators also work with you to help manage the costs of your prescriptions. We understand that medication can be expensive. If you’re not able to afford your medicines, we can help you find an assistance program that will help cover the costs of the medications you need. If ...
In Singapore, financial constraints pose an important barrier for nephrologists to prescribe NCPBs, although subsidies are available to patients who require financial assistance. NCPBs often are used as second-line drug treatment forhyperphosphatemiawhen there are contraindications to the use of CPBs....
70% of patients reported being sometimes, often, or very active compared with 57% elsewhere. This association was true even after adjustment for age, sex, location, length of time receiving dialysis, and need for assistance with walking (odds ratio...
The characteristics of patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (CKD) who are recipients of public assistance in Japan, and the adequacy of their medical care have not been reported previously.The records of patients with CKD stage G5 who visited nine facilities in Japan from April to June...
Conservative care Medical CKD management with focus on quality of life Assistance with advance care planning and end of life care Abbreviation: CKD, chronic kidney disease. Based on information presented in Quill and Abernethy, 2013 (N Engl J Med. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp1215620). Randomi...
Advanced kidney cancer refers to a stage of kidney cancer where the disease has spread beyond the kidney to other parts of the body, requiring more complex...
The ERT, with assistance from the Cochrane Renal Group in Sydney Australia, performed literature searches in MEDLINE, Cochrane Central Registry for trials, and Cochrane database of systematic reviews from 1985 through February 2008. The Work Group added additional studies through November 2008. The el...
Do they have free services like support groups and travel assistance? Do they take part in different types of donation programs like paired organ donation? Once you've collected information from different centers, you can compare their data with national statistics from the Scientific Registry of Tr...
Chronic Kidney Disease - Learn about the causes, symptoms, diagnosis & treatment from the Merck Manuals - Medical Consumer Version.