Rainer Gruessner: Strong and Effective Patient Advocate

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Rainer Gruessner Strong and Effective Patient
Advocate
In 2010 and 2011 Arizonas Medicaid program
(AHCCCS) stopped paying for certain liver,
pancreas, heart, lung and bone marrow transplants
for financial reasons. This became nationally
known as Death by Budget Cuts. Dr Rainer
Gruessner vehemently fought this decision and got
the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
(ASTS) and other national transplant
organizations involved as well as the media and
politicians. Due to the public pressure these
budget cuts were eventually revoked and patients
were relisted for life-saving transplants.
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Rainer Gruessner Top of the Arizona Medical
Community
Dr Rainer Gruessner has enjoyed a career of
firsts, also as a member of the Arizona medical
community. A long-time medical professional in
the state of Arizona, Gruessner became the first
surgeon in the nations Southwest to perform
living and deceased intestinal transplants, as
well as the first to perform a multi-visceral
transplant and a pediatric living donor liver
transplant. Gruessner has directed many
innovative surgical procedures.
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Rainer Gruessner Fighting AHCCCS denial of
Life-Saving Transplants
In 2010 and 2011 Arizonas Medicaid program
(AHCCCS) stopped paying for certain liver,
pancreas, heart, lung and bone marrow transplants
for financial reasons. This became nationally
known as Death by Budget Cuts. Dr Rainer
Gruessner vehemently fought this decision and got
the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
(ASTS) and other national transplant
organizations involved as well as the media and
politicians. Due to the public pressure these
budget cuts were eventually revoked and patients
were relisted for life-saving transplants.
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Rainer Gruessner Fighting Arizonas Budget Cuts
of Transplant Coverage
In 2010 and 2011 Arizonas Medicaid program
(AHCCCS) stopped paying for certain liver,
pancreas, heart, lung and bone marrow transplants
for financial reasons. This became nationally
known as Death by Budget Cuts. Dr Rainer
Gruessner vehemently fought this decision and got
the American Society of Transplant Surgeons
(ASTS) and other national transplant
organizations involved as well as the media and
politicians. Due to the public pressure these
budget cuts were eventually revoked and patients
were relisted for life-saving transplants.
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