Many ESRD Patients May Lack Drug Coverage.

MedPage Today  (3/10, Walsh) reported, "Many patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) still lack insurance coverage for the medications they need to manage their disease," according to a study  published online March 8 in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology. "In 2007, 17% of ESRD patients enrolled in Medicare had no evident source of drug coverage," researchers from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) found. "This was a slightly higher number than in the larger, non-ESRD Medicare population, where 15.4% of enrollees were without drug coverage, the" study authors found.