Promote Financial Security
DPC is committed to ensuring patients have the maximum choice among coverage options when it comes to their dialysis care. Whether through traditional Medicare, Medigap, Medicaid or exchange health plans under the Affordable Care Act, DPC is working to ensure dialysis patients aren’t excluded from benefits and coverage necessary for their health.
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Letters: Bill in Congress would help dialysis patients
In 2017, while working in Melbourne, Australia, I became unable to walk three city blocks without stopping to catch my breath. Within hours of reaching the ER, I’d had two blood transfusions and was [...]
New dialysis patients deserve continued coverage
I was first diagnosed with kidney disease in 2001, shortly after the birth of my second daughter. What doctors thought was pregnancy-related high blood pressure turned out to be the start of kidney failure. [...]
Protecting dialysis patients
My sister and I have polycystic kidney disease and shared the same dialysis schedule for years. I’ve been on dialysis nearly 15 years, surviving heart surgery and breast cancer before receiving a kidney transplant [...]
Dialysis patients deserve protection
During my final year of college, I nearly died. What began as abdominal pain, misdiagnosed and mistreated, spiraled into sepsis that was shutting down my organs one by one. By the time I reached [...]
LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Congress must restore protections for dialysis patients
My husband Greg was diagnosed with end-stage renal disease in 2006. He spent nearly seven years on dialysis before receiving a kidney transplant in 2013. For over a decade, that transplant gave him his [...]
Letter to the Editor: Kidney disease
I was not looking for kidney disease when it found me. It surfaced during a routine pre-op workup for a completely unrelated procedure. After advocating for myself and pushing for a follow-up, I was [...]
