Nephrology
Renal Transplant Maintenance
Patient Care Perspectives Podcast: Managing Financial Burden and Treatment Access After Kidney Transplantation
Kidney transplantation may provide freedom from dialysis, but maintaining the graft requires lifelong immunosuppression, laboratory monitoring, clinic visits, and reliable access to care. In today’s podcast, Beatrice P. Concepcion, MD, discusses how copays, insurance changes, transportation, missed work, and other financial and logistical burdens can affect adherence and rejection risk, and why transplant programs and community clinicians should address these issues proactively.
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