Reimbursement for living kidney donor follow-up care: how often does donor insurance pay?
Reimbursement for living kidney donor follow-up care: how often does donor insurance pay?
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活体肾脏捐赠者后续护理的报销：捐赠者保险多久支付一次？
DOI：
10.1097/tp.0b013e31826cc9a1
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发表时间：
2012
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影响因子：
6.2
通讯作者：
Mandelbrot,Didier
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作者：
Kher,Ajay;Rodrigue,James;Ajaimy,Maria;Wasilewski,Marcy;Ladin,Keren;Mandelbrot,Didier
背景目前，许多移植中心并不长期跟踪以前的活体肾供体。已经确定了几个潜在的障碍，以提供这种后续的前活体肾脏捐赠者，包括担心捐赠者的保险将不会偿还移植中心或初级保健医生的这种护理。在这里，我们报告的利率，不同的保险公司报销我们的移植中心的后续访问living donor.MethodsWe收集的数据，每年的后续访问的活体捐赠者从2007年1月1日，到2010年12月31日，代表82个不同的捐助者。并发访问的收件人可为47收件人，并被用作control group.ResultsWe发现，大部分的账单的后续访问的活体肾脏捐赠者支付的保险公司，在类似的速度报销收件人后续care.ConclusionsOur研究结果表明，前捐助者的保险，报销不足不应该是一个障碍，在提供后续护理。
BackgroundCurrently, many transplantation centers do not follow former living kidney donors on a long-term basis. Several potential barriers have been identified to provide this follow-up of former living kidney donors, including concerns that donor insurance will not reimburse transplantation centers or primary care physicians for this care. Here, we report the rates at which different insurance companies reimbursed our transplantation center for follow-up visits of living donors.MethodsWe collected data on all yearly follow-up visits of living donors billed from January 1, 2007, to December 31, 2010, representing 82 different donors. Concurrent visits of their recipients were available for 47 recipients and were used as a control group.ResultsWe find that most bills for follow-up visits of living kidney donors were paid by insurance companies, at a rate similar to the reimbursement for recipient follow-up care.ConclusionsOur findings suggest that, for former donors with insurance, inadequate reimbursement should not be a barrier in providing follow-up care.