Beth Witten will answer questions about reimbursement for dialysis, Medicare policy, employment, living with dialysis, and patient rights and responsibilities.
Beth Witten, MSW, ACSW, LSCSW, is a Resource and Policy Associate for Medical Education Institute. In addition Beth is employed by the National...
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I have a patient with Kaiser insurance and on PD. She has been too ill to work and wants to apply for disability. She is hoping to go back to work...
I am 42 years old and been on dialysis for 2 1/2 years. I have good health insurance coverage through my job. Do I need to apply for Medicare? If I...
Some of the home patients in one of my list serves are allowed to give themselves IV iron at home. In our program we can not. I asked my nurse the...
With my home program, I am required to attend monthly clinic. If ever I can not attend does Medicare allow me to do so or must it be made up somehow?...
Is there a Medicare or other agency guideline as to how far a patient has to travel to a PD clinic. For instance, if there is a PD clinic close to...
Hello~ My husband is on dialysis, and thus, eligible for Medicare. He is also on my health insurance through work. He is also on the list for...
Hi Beth, My fiancee is currently going to in-center dialysis, three days a week. However, we are hoping in the near future that he can start...
At the advice of my social worker from my dialysis center, I enrolled in Medicare although I already have private insurance through my job. I will...
Hello all. I have learned that the dialysis companies will pay for (provide) phos binders to dialysis pts. Anyone heard much about this and has a...
What does the new healthcare bill say about peritoneal dialysis, if anything? My nephrologist is concerned that there will be a general cutoff for...
Hi Beth, I am trying to figure out what the advantages and disadvantges of choosing Method I vs. Method II are. Thanks in advance.
Will Medicare pay for more than 3 treatments per week? Such as 5 to 6 treatments per week on Next Stage?
I am a Dialysis patient at a Center but have been looking into the NxStage System I have been told that Medicare will only pay for this system if you...
Dear Beth, I was a frequent poster on the PD board on behalf of my dad, a dialysis patient, in 2008-early 2009. PD stopped working effectively for...
Hi there. I am at the very beginning of transitioning to PD. I will soon be getting my catheter and starting the treatments. Of course, I have a...
Hello, we recently had a house guest who brought along his home dialysis equipment. The visit is over but supplies for a max 3 days of treatment...
Hello everyone and thank you for the returns on "A question". I have several more questions that I would like input on from "this side of the...
Hello everyone. First time on this board so please be gentle. I have what may be a silly idea or question. We are out here where we must travel 30...
Just wanted to say hello. My fiance Guy is my Care Taker and He's doing a wonderful job staying up my illness Sle Lupus, 27 year Survivor! Guy's SO...
My background I have been a dialysis social worker for over 30 years. All three clinics where I worked had PD and home HD. All were staffed by...
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