Tag: Medicaid
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Medicare Guide to Heart Disease
By Danielle Kunkle Roberts The term “heart disease” encompasses a variety of conditions that can affect your heart, including coronary heart disease, muscle weakness in the wall of your heart and heart rhythm disorders. Heart disease is a leading cause of death for both men and women in America. Many factors can contribute to…
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Access to Life-Saving Medications is Being Denied
“The fight for my PCSK9 took almost two years and highlights the need for us to continue in the fight for access to life-saving medications for all heart patients.” – Donnette Smith, President of Mended Hearts. The non-profit Institute for Patient Access is in the process of revealing health care report cards for all…
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Medicaid Covered More Than Half the Costs to Save My Son’s Life
My son, Angus, was born with a congenital heart defect (CHD) that was repaired shortly after his birth. Approximately 40,000 babies, 1 in 110, are born with CHD each year. We learned about his heart defect at my 20-week pregnancy check-up and were immediately referred out to a pediatric cardiologist. It was devastating. I never…