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Article: Fund maintains health insurance coverage for indigent patients.(American Kidney Fund Health Insurance Premium Program )(Brief Article)
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- Health & Medicine Week
- Article date:
- November 11, 2002
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2002 NOV 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The American Kidney Fund (AKF) has marked a milestone in helping low-income kidney patients maintain their health insurance coverage.
AKF's Health Insurance Premium Program (HIPP) was established in 1997 to provide a safety net for 3000 dialysis patients who were losing their health insurance due to a federal health reform law designed to provide "portability" for health insurance. Health insurance is widely viewed as the cornerstone of adequate medical care, and AKF understood the potentially devastating consequences for chronically ill patients who could lose their health coverage.
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