Patient on $50,000-a-Week Cancer Drug Fears Leaving Behind Huge Medical Debt

Patient on $50,000-a-Week Cancer Drug Fears Leaving Behind Huge Medical Debt
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After several rounds of treatment for a rare eye cancer—weekly drug infusions that could cost nearly $50,000 each—Paul Davis learned Medicare had abruptly stopped paying the bills.

That left Davis, a retired physician in Findlay, Ohio, contemplating a horrific choice: risk saddling his family with huge medical debt—if he has to pay those bills from the hospital out-of-pocket—or halt treatments that help keep him alive.