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Do you qualify for this new Medicare benefit? Educational Classes About Chronic Kidney Disease

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What if I don't qualify?You will find brochures, factsheets, and other information about kidney disease on the NKF website. You can also contact your local NKF office. They may be able to refer you to other sources of information, support, and education.

To find an NKF office near you, visit the NKF website at www.kidney.org or call 800.622.9010.

How can I learn more?Ask your doctor or other health care professional and be sure to contact the National Kidney Foundation. Visit www.kidney.org or call 800.622.9020 to find a health care professional who offers Your Treatment,Your Choice in your area.

NEW!

A “People Like Us” patient education initiative

from the National Kidney Foundation

What will this program cover?

Why learn about kidney disease?

Knowing how to make informed choices about your health can help you live a longer, healthier life.

Your Treatment, Your Choice is a new program from the National Kidney Foundation (NKF) that will help you understand your kidney health, your treatment choices, and what you can do to live well with kidney disease. Your Treatment, Your Choice was especially designed for Medicare's new kidney disease education benefit.

Six classes provide up-to-date information on chronic kidney disease, how it affects your body, available treatment choices for kidney failure (including transplant, at-home dialysis and in-center dialysis), and what you can do to live well with kidney disease. Classes are informal and run approximately one hour each.

Where are classes offered?Ask your doctor or other health care profes-sional about Your Treatment, Your Choice and the new Medicare benefit for kidney disease education.

What will this service cost?You may be asked to pay 20% of the Medicare-approved amount, and, if so, the Part B deductible applies.

Your Treatment

Your Choice!Chronic Kidney Disease

Did you know that you may qualify?You may qualify for a new Medicare benefit! Beginning January 1, 2010, Medicare will pay for education about kidney disease if you have:

• Medicare

• Chronic kidney disease stage 4

• A referral from your doctor

There are 5 stages of kidney disease

• The stage of kidney disease you have is based on your Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR).

• Your GFR tells you how much kidney function you have.

• People with stage 4 kidney disease have a GFR between 15 and 29.

• If you do not know your stage of kidney disease, ask your doctor or other health care professional.

Knowledge!Choices!

Participate in Coffee House ConversationsTM

Learn more about the new Medicare benefit in NKF's free Coffee House

ConversationTM program. Coffee House ConversationsTM are interactive telephone

calls hosted by the NKF to help empower and educate patients about Chronic

Kidney Disease. For more information, visit www.kidney.org/coffeehouse

©2010 National Kidney Foundation, Inc. All rights reserved. 01-10-0203

Do you qualify for this new Medicare benefit? Educational Classes About Chronic Kidney Disease

Your

Tre

atm

ent

Your

Cho

ice!

Chr

onic

Kid

ney

Dis

ease

Your Treatment

Your Choice!Chronic Kidney Disease

30 E

ast 3

3rd

Stre

et

New

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k, N

Y 10

016

800.

622.

9020

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What if I don't qualify?You will find brochures, factsheets, and other information about kidney disease on the NKF website. You can also contact your local NKF office. They may be able to refer you to other sources of information, support, and education.

To find an NKF office near you, visit the NKF website at www.kidney.org or call 800.622.9010.

How can I learn more?Ask your doctor or other health care professional and be sure to contact the National Kidney Foundation. Visit www.kidney.org or call 800.622.9020 to find a health care professional who offers Your Treatment,Your Choice in your area.

NEW!

A “People Like Us” patient education initiative

from the National Kidney Foundation