Transplantation Medicine

Medicare Decides To Cover Liver Transplants

Published in Blood Weekly, October 4th, 2001

Surgeons from the Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pennsylvania, are calling the federal government's decision to expand Medicare coverage for liver transplants to include patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) a "victory for patients."

The new policy became effective September 1, 2001. The decision is significant because more than 10% of all patients with cirrhosis will develop HCC. This is particularly true with hepatitis B and C patients, who make up the single largest group of liver transplant patients (40%), and with rates of hepatitis on the rise in the United States, more patients are...

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