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AST On Capitol Hill To Promote Transplant Drug Extension Provision With Senate As Part Of Health Care Reform (BioresearchOnline)

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As Congress wraps up work on health care reform, members of the American Society of Transplantation’s (AST) Public Policy Committee arrived on Capitol Hill today to discuss the importance of supporting a health care provision that would ensure kidney transplant recipients continue to receive Medicare coverage for immunosuppressive drugs.

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AST on Capitol Hill to Promote Transplant Drug Extension Provision With Senate as Part of Health Care Reform (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)

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As Congress wraps up work on health care reform, members of the American Society of Transplantation’s Public Policy Committee arrived on Capitol Hill today to discuss the importance of supporting a health care provision that would ensure kidney transplant recipients continue to receive Medicare coverage for immunosuppressive drugs.

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AST urges Senate Finance Committee to adopt a health care provision for transplant drug extension (News-Medical-Net)

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As the Senate Finance Committee prepares to vote on the amended health care reform package, members of the American Society of Transplantation (AST) arrived on Capitol Hill armed with a letter encouraging the Senate to adopt a health care provision that will extend Medicare’s coverage of post-transplant drugs, which are critical to maintaining the health of the transplant patient …

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Health care comes down to cases of Oregon wine for kidney transplant patient (The Oregonian)

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Eyrie Vineyards sells wine to help an employee’s spouse who needed a kidney transplant pay for anti-rejection drugs, filling in gaps for an inefficient health care system.

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Kidney Drug Plan Divides Transplant And Dialysis Supporters (Medical News Today)

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The New York Times: “A Congressional proposal to help pay for drugs needed by transplant recipients to prevent rejection of donated kidneys has run into opposition from dialysis providers, drug companies and the National Kidney Foundation.” The groups support extending Medicare drug coverage but say the measure would cut funding for dialysis. “The proposal has created a rift between those in the …

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