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Article: Medicare Patients Applaud New Certification of Sutter's Heart Transplant Program.
- Article from:
- Heart Disease Weekly
- Article date:
- November 8, 2009
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Larry Clymer's heart was just plum wearing out. The 60-year-old Rocklin resident needed a heart transplant, and a temporary machine was implanted in his abdomen to keep his heart beating until the right heart was identified (see also Heart Transplants).
Then, in February, Clymer received more devastating news. The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) canceled Sutter Medical Center, Sacramento's contract for its Heart Transplant Program. That meant Clymer would need to get his transplant at a Bay Area hospital and would have to live in San Francisco for at least six weeks until he was well enough to return home. Then he'd be required to make ...