Sep. 14th, 2008

edenfalling: stylized black-and-white line art of a sunset over water (question marks)
Am attempting to work out what Medicare and/or Medicaid would and would not cover in treatment for myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), and also what that treatment (inpatient bone marrow transplant surgery plus outpatient care plus follow-ups, plus maybe doing it all over again if you're in the 40% who don't die but don't recover either) would cost.

I cannot make heads or tails out of the stupid websites. Are they trying to be deliberately obfuscatory?

...

It's government. Probably they are.


(This is for a fic, btw, but... my uncle actually has MDS. He found out a couple months ago, and will probably start treatment at the University of Minnesota hospital in October. They told him that if he gets no treatment, he has a 50% chance of dying within the next two years. If he does get treatment, he has a 20% chance of complete failure [and therefore, presumably, death], a 40% chance of a complete recovery, and a 40% chance of, well, something in between. I am praying for him.)
edenfalling: stylized black-and-white line art of a sunset over water (question marks)
Am attempting to work out what Medicare and/or Medicaid would and would not cover in treatment for myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), and also what that treatment (inpatient bone marrow transplant surgery plus outpatient care plus follow-ups, plus maybe doing it all over again if you're in the 40% who don't die but don't recover either) would cost.

I cannot make heads or tails out of the stupid websites. Are they trying to be deliberately obfuscatory?

...

It's government. Probably they are.


(This is for a fic, btw, but... my uncle actually has MDS. He found out a couple months ago, and will probably start treatment at the University of Minnesota hospital in October. They told him that if he gets no treatment, he has a 50% chance of dying within the next two years. If he does get treatment, he has a 20% chance of complete failure [and therefore, presumably, death], a 40% chance of a complete recovery, and a 40% chance of, well, something in between. I am praying for him.)

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