Transplant. (BadgerCare Plus and SSI Medicaid Plans) Members who have had a transplant that is considered experimental such as a liver, heart, lung, heart-lung, pancreas, pancreas-kidney or bone marrow transplant are eligible for an exemption.
a. Members who have had a transplant that is considered experimental will be permanently exempted from HMO enrollment the first of the month in which surgery is performed.
b. In the case of autologous bone marrow transplants, the person will be permanently exempted from HMO enrollment the date the bone marrow was extracted.
c. Members who have had one or more of the transplant surgeries referenced above prior to enrollment in an HMO will be permanently exempted. The effective date will be either the first of the month not more than six months prior to the date of the request, or the first of the month of the HMO enrollment, whichever is later. Exemption requests may be made by the HMO and should be directed to the Department's fiscal agent Nurse Consultant.
Transplant procedures not included in the list above, or otherwise excluded under this Contract, such as Experimental or Investigational transplant procedures.
Transplant. The transplant of human solid organs, specifically:
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Transplant. IRP nurses shall continue to receive on-call pay for all hours worked during assigned on- call. It is not the intent to schedule a Transplant IRP nurse in an on-call status to displace a regular staff nurse’s schedule request. A Transplant IRP nurse who signs up for an on- call shift shall not displace a regular Transplant Coordinator who signs up for the on-call shift. The scheduling of Transplant IRP nurses for on-call is at the discretion of management based on operational needs.
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