Episode 86: A Patient Perspective on Ghost Coverage and Access to Immunosuppressants

For the first time, JHLT: The Podcast welcomes a patient onto the podcast. The Digital Media Editors are pleased to welcome heart transplant recipient and patient advocate Payton Herres for a discussion about her recent perspective piece in JHLT. In this compelling, moving discussion, Payton shares: Her treatment story—from her congenital diagnoses to her life-changing transplant—and her donor's story The difference between coverage and access—and how FDA labeling affected her access to an important component of her care What she wishes clinicians understood about long-term care of transplant patients For the latest studies from JHLT, visit www.jhltonline.org/current, or, if you're an ISHLT member, access your Journal membership at www.ishlt.org/jhlt. Don't already get the Journal and want to read along? Join the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation at www.ishlt.org for a free subscription, or subscribe today at www.jhltonline.org.