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A 78-year-old white female patient with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and non-ischemic cardiomyopathy status-post implantation of a biventricular pacemaker 2 years earlier presented at an outside hospital 2 months earlier with chills, night sweats and malaise for weeks. Today, CMS pays for heart transplants, but not for the TAH-t, which is used as a bridge to transplant for donor eligible patients who are near death from end stage biventricular failure. It keeps patients who are suffering from end stage biventricular failure alive while they wait for a human donor heart. |
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