Lack of dependable access to long-term immunosuppression is the Achilles’ Heel of American kidney transplantation. A legal remnant of now-disproven assumptions, the federal policy of discontinuing Medicare eligibility three years after a kidney transplant places thousands of recipients at risk each year, and is a major cause of graft failure. This policy also prevents countless potential recipients from even considering a transplant due to fears of financial ruin.
While AST and other groups have advocated for a rational end to this policy for years, an article published online...
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