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For individuals with failing kidneys — and there are millions of them in america — a kidney transplant gives a brand new lease on life. However like each different kind of transplant, its success depends upon taking medication for all times to suppress the immune system. In any other case, the physique begins rejecting the transplanted organ.

That’s fundamental medical science. So it is unnecessary that Medicare covers these medication for simply 36 months for almost all of people that obtain new kidneys. Due to this, many sufferers discover themselves again the place they began in a dangerous and horrifying place: on dialysis and in want of a brand new kidney that for a lot of won’t ever come.

Continual kidney illness (CKD) is the ninth leading cause of death in america, claiming extra lives than breast most cancers or prostate most cancers. Greater than 37 million Individuals live with CKD as we speak. People with irreversible kidney failure, referred to as end-stage renal disease, have solely two selections to outlive: endure common and frequent dialysis or be lucky sufficient to obtain a kidney transplant.

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Since 1973, Medicare has coated the care for people with irreversible kidney failure, or end-stage renal illness. Dialysis does mechanically what the kidneys do naturally: removes waste merchandise and extra fluid from the physique. Most individuals endure dialysis at a hospital or dialysis middle, normally thrice every week for about 4 hours every time. Medicare spends $86,300 a yr per affected person on dialysis, and there’s no time restrict on this protection.

Kidney transplantation is a medical success story. It could dramatically enhance the recipient’s high quality and size of life. However not everybody who wants a donated organ receives one. There are presently greater than 103,000 people on the kidney transplant ready checklist, whereas simply 23,000 kidney transplants have been carried out in 2019.

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The upfront price of a kidney transplant is about $110,000. Afterward, protection of immunotherapy underneath Medicare Half B is roughly $2,300 per yr. The financial savings to the federal government of offering immunosuppressive drugs are clear.

As Medicare regulation presently stands, sufferers’ lives are in danger, donor kidneys are being uncared for, and taxpayer cash is being squandered. It’s time for change. That’s why I’m testifying before Congress Wednesday in help of lifetime Medicare protection of immunosuppressive drugs for kidney transplant recipients.

As a transplant surgeon for almost 20 years, I’ve witnessed firsthand the impression of this shortsighted coverage. Sufferers wrestle to pay for the immunosuppressive medication wanted to take care of their transplants when their Medicare protection ends, particularly lower-income sufferers who lack group medical insurance or who don’t qualify for Medicaid or different help. These monetary pressures power some affected person into rationing their immunosuppressive medication or forgoing them altogether, both of which typically ends in the failure of the transplanted kidney.

I can recall a number of sufferers who had to decide on between paying their mortgage or utility payments and paying for his or her transplant-saving medicine. Lots of my colleagues report that they encounter sufferers in comparable conditions. A 2012 New England Journal of Medicine article reported that almost 70% of kidney transplant applications reported both a loss of life or transplant loss on account of sufferers’ lack of ability to pay for his or her antirejection drugs.

The 36-month limitation on protection additionally has a detrimental impact on dwelling kidney donations. Sufferers are reluctant to ask a good friend or member of the family to be a dwelling donor in the event that they concern they are going to be unable to afford their antirejection drugs long run. As an advocate for growing kidney donation, I’ve hassle asking dwelling donors or donor households to present probably the most wonderful “present of life” realizing that Medicare will reduce off needed immunosuppressive protection after three years.

In Could of 2019, the Division of Well being and Human Companies carried out an evaluation that indicated potentially significant cost savings from extending immunosuppressive protection for kidney transplant sufferers by averting future dialysis and re-transplantation. The Facilities for Medicare and Medicare’s Workplace of the Actuary concluded that extending protection could save Medicare as much as $300 million over ten years.

In December 2019, Reps. Ron Type (D-Wis.) and Michael Burgess (D-Texas) launched the Complete Immunosuppressive Drug Protection for Kidney Transplant Sufferers Act (H.R. 5534). This laws would prolong Medicare protection of immunosuppressive drugs for kidney transplant recipients for all times.

By offering this protection of final resort, Congress will help cut back the chance of the failure of transplanted kidneys, decrease the necessity for repeat transplants, allow extra sufferers to pursue transplants, and save taxpayers cash on the potential price of re-transplantation. Most significantly, this measure additionally honors the present of kidney donation for individuals who gave selflessly so others could have a second probability at life.

The present 36-month protection coverage for immunosuppressive medication shouldn’t be medically, economically, or ethically justified. Congress should repair it.

Matthew Cooper, M.D., is the director of kidney and pancreas transplantation at Medstar Georgetown Transplant Institute, professor of surgical procedure at Georgetown College College of Drugs, and a board member of the Nationwide Kidney Basis. He experiences receiving consulting and analysis charges from a number of firms that manufacture immunosuppressive medication. Extra details about H.R. 5534 is accessible at Honor the Gift, a patient-centered marketing campaign for extending Medicare protection of kidney transplant antirejection drugs sponsored by CareDx, a precision drugs firm centered on enhancing transplant outcomes.

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