When you first enroll in Medicare based on ESRD and you are on dialysis, your Medicare coverage usually starts the first day of the fourth month of dialysis treatments. For example, if you start getting your dialysis treatments in July, your Medicare coverage would start on October 1.
cliÂ·max community. An ecological community in which populations of plants or animals remain stable and exist in balance with each other and their environment. A climax community is the final stage of succession, remaining relatively unchanged until destroyed by an event such as fire or human interference.
In some environments, succession reaches a climax, which produces a stable community dominated by a small number of prominent species. This state of equilibrium, called the climax community, is thought to result when the web of biotic interactions becomes so intricate that no other species can be admitted.