Confusing and High Bills for Cancer Patients Add to Anxiety and Suffering

Confusing and High Bills for Cancer Patients Add to Anxiety and Suffering
Having cancer is bad enough, and dealing with the costs and confusion of billing systems makes things harder. KieferPix/Shutterstock
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Weeks after my father passed away from cancer in 2010, my newly widowed mother received a bill for $11,000.

Insurance retroactively denied a submitted claim for one of his last chemotherapy treatments, claiming it was “experimental.” All of the prior identical chemotherapy treatments he had received had been covered, and the doctors had received pre-authorization for the treatment.

Mary Politi
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