Medicare Patient and New to CPap?  Don't Lose Your Benefits.

If Medicare is paying a portion of the monthly fee for your new CPap / BiPap machine, the machine will be owned outright by you after 13 months. That’s the good news. The bad news is that Medicare can stop paying for your machine within that first 13 months if you are not using it as directed.

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The Hill, a poem by our PHFriend Jode Cox

If you are living with pulmonary hypertension or are close to someone with this disease, then you know how formidable a hill can be to someone who gets short-of-breath easily. But that's not the whole story. There are hills and there are hills. Ms. Cox reminds us about the other hills too, the ones we face in trying to grasp the nature of this illness and the uphill battles we face in educating others about our limitations.

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