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 Oklahoma Statutes (Last Updated: September 18, 2014)
 Title 63. PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY

  § 63-1-2602. Eligibility requirements - Areas of financial assistance.  

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  • A.  The State Department of Health shall establish eligibility requirements for financial assistance from the Kidney Health Revolving Fund.  Financial assistance shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following areas:

    1.  Payment for three (3) months of Hemodialysis treatments prior to establishment of Medicare eligibility;

    2.  Payment for the Social Security deductible in situations where the patient is unable to meet the deductible;

    3.  Monthly medications;

    4.  Transportation to and from dialysis;

    5.  Pretransplant and posttransplant costs including lab work, tissue typing and the medication Cyclosporine;

    6.  Certain physician's fees; and

    7.  Such other financial assistance to indigent persons with permanent kidney failure as the Department deems appropriate.

    B.  The State Department of Health shall promulgate rules for the proper administration of the Kidney Health Revolving Fund in accordance with the requirements of this section.

Added by Laws 1993, c. 250, § 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1993.