Does Employment Status Affect Chance At Transplant?

[PrimeTimer]

Hypothetical question: If you were employed while trying to get on the transplant list but suddenly got fired from your job, does a transplant team frown on that? Do they look at it as somehow being "unstable" or just from the point of perhaps not being financially stable? What about the emotional aspects of it? Would a team perhaps want to hold off on their decision to list or not put you on the list until you know whether or not you will be or want to be employed again?

[Simon Dog]

I was decruited while on the transplant list and the team never found out and would not have cared if they did.  It is only likely to affect your status if you become uninsured and thus fail the wallet biopsy.  Many transplant candidates are either retired, unemployed, or unable to work and on disability.

[Mr Ken]

I like that word "Decruited" sounds much better than being canned....

[Simon Dog]

I like that word "Decruited" sounds much better than being canned....

Actually, one gets phased to the mobility unit for the decruitment career phase.

Now, if I rejoin my former employer (they have shown some serious interest) will it mean that I have been rerecruited, and if they eventually can me, will I be redecruited?

[UkrainianTracksuit]

At my local clinic, most of the recent tx recipients are either retired or unemployed. Employment only becomes a question to the assessment in regard to coverage for the future prescriptions and care. As Simon Dog said, the wallet biopsy. Again, I state I'm ignorant of the US system but so many tx patients here receive their drug coverage from government programs, so being unemployed didn't mean much.

[Simon Dog]

Here in the US, Medicare covers immunosuppresents for 3 years post xplant, then its private insurance;  Medicare Part D insurance; or private pay.

Other drugs are not covered.  My wife's family plan insurance covered my 90 day Sensipar prescription (yes, I still need it post xplant) that came with a cash price of a bit over $6,000.