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Aetna Patients Score $3.4 Million Proton Beam Therapy Settlement

Aetna Life Insurance Co. will pay up to $3.4 million to settle a proposed class action claiming it wrongly refused to cover a cancer treatment called proton beam therapy. The settlement,…
  • March 7, 2023
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Ron Rivera, Other Cancer Patients Forced to Fight for Insurance Coverage of Proton Therapy

For many families, cancer is the fight of their lives, but the News4 I-Team found some are having to endure another fight they never expected: getting their treatment covered by…
  • March 16, 2022
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Insurance companies aren’t doctors. So why do we keep letting them practice medicine?

  • November 26, 2019
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When insurance wouldn’t pay, parents funded cancer patient’s $95,000 lifesaving treatment

  • August 16, 2018
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Columbus Woman Battles Cancer and Insurance Company

By Mike McKnight for WOWT News ROCHESTER, Minn. (WOWT) - When a rare form of cancer struck a young Nebraska woman, she learned the treatment could save her life but…
  • May 15, 2016
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