NATION AND WORLD
University Daily Kansan, January 22, 1985
Page 8.
Site for kidney machine discussed
By GREG LARSON Staff Reporter
University of Kansas Medical Center officials and a group of Kansas City urologists are disagreeing on who should own and where to put the area's first machine that will dispose of kidney stones the next day. The Maryland, the MCU Center's executive vice chancellor said yesterday.
The Dornier Kidney灯油tripter, which will arrive at the Med Center in 1886, smashes kidney stones with a drill. The patient is sent from undergoing painful surgery.
Kay Clawson, the Med Center's executive vice chancellor, said that a Friday meeting produced no significant changes between the two groups. The urologists want to own the machine and operate it from a separate building, allowing the Med Center wants to own the machine and allow the urologists to have access to it.
"THESE ARE JUST two differing philosophies and the differences haven't been worked out yet," Clawson said. "There is a good deal of harmony in the negotiations, but disagreements agreements have been reached."
The Med Center has the purchase
order and a certificate of need for the machine. he said.
The Food and Drug Administration approved use of the machine in late December, allowing insurance companies to administer these operations with the lithotripper.
Before the FDA approval, insurance companies would not pay for lothripter operations, and patients had to sign forms releasing the hospice from liability for possible side effects from the treatment.
The lithotriptor costs $2.4 million, including replacement parts and adaptations of the treatment room, John Weigel, professor of surgery at the Med Center, said.
LITHOTRIPTER TREATMENT will save patients both time and money, Eugene Staples, hospital administrator, said. Kidney treatment would cost about 40 percent less than the conventional surgery.
Weigel said lithotriopter treatment cost about $4,500 in Indiana, and about $11,000 in Florida. The average cost nationally of the conventional therapy was $2,699 that he said was close to the Med Center's cost for the procedure.
Staples said, "The biggest savings is that they can go back to work earlier. Usually, the patient wouldn't
go home for 6 to 8 weeks, but now he can go home in 4 to 5 days."
The lithotriptor was developed in Germany after 13 years of research. Only six hospitals in the United States have the machines. 'Jat 25 and 45' were scheduled to attend the United States in 1985 and 1986, Weigel said.
ON CAMPUS
He said the lithotriher would be successful in pulverizing 85 percent of kidney stones in the upper region of the organ, but stones shielded by the pelvis in the lower region of the kidney could not be treated by the machine.
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