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Special Programs: A full Kosher menu and kids' eating programs. In addition, for those of you traveling with an animal companion look for the unique "pet menu" featuring such delicacies as poached ham with rice ($6.00), grilled chicken liver and rice ($6.00) and chopped meat with egg yolk ($7.00) For dessert treat Princess to ice cream ($3.50), sponge cake with whipped cream ($3.50) or good old fashioned strawberries in fresh cream...
While Hunter has a new liver, the question of who will pay for it lingers on. PHP insists that it told Duke it would pay. But pay what? "They made an offer," says Robbins. "But they never agreed to pay the hospital bill." PHP fires back that anyone in the business knows that if an insurer "authorizes" a procedure, it means the patient is no longer liable, the hospital will get paid--something. Complicating this particular case is the fact that URN, PHP's liver carrier, has been negotiating with Duke over a liver-capitation deal for months, and neither...
...many, many ways. Assuming his new liver takes, which to date it has, Hunter will be on immunosuppressants for the rest of his life. In the first year alone, that will cost him about $1,500 a month. The likelihood that, as Shotgun Shane Sawyer, he will ever again wrestle is virtually nil. As he heals physically, he must be on guard for the intense feelings of anger, even depression, that typically besiege transplant patients. And he should make peace with his managed-care provider as soon as possible. For someone with a "pre-existing" medical condition like Hunter...
...millions of specially designed cells begin finding their way, she hopes, to the very core of the thing she has struggled with for years. Strauss, 76, is a retired preschool teacher from Chapel Hill, N.C., just down the road from Duke. For five years she has battled breast and liver cancer. Chemotherapy gave her two years in remission. The new breast-cancer treatment tamoxifen provided two more. Another year was gained from another antiestrogen drug. Then doctors ran out of approved medications...
...Manish Shah is trying to figure out why Thelma Shoe's nose keeps bleeding. At least once or twice a week, the 73-year-old has been getting nosebleeds that last up to an hour. Shoe's no stranger to the clinic; she has emphysema, cirrhosis of the liver (from medication she took for tuberculosis), and has already had heart-bypass surgery...