HMO sued for denying chemotherapy to Florida cancer patient

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Specializes in Vents, Telemetry, Home Care, Home infusion.

A Lake Worth, Fla., woman with brain cancer has sued her HMO on alleging it has refused to pay for a chemotherapy drug her doctor prescribed. The suit centers on whether the drug is considered a prescription pharmaceutical or a chemotherapy treatment.

South Florida Sun-Sentinel, Dec. 20, 2002

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pbrain20dec20,0,7809401.story?coll=sfla%2Dnews%2Dpalm

Check your policies carefully when you choose insurance!

Specializes in MS Home Health.

Poor woman,

renerian

Reason # 3256 of why I hate insurance companies....dirty scum that they are! I hope they lose, but I pray that somehow she lives!!

Kristy

Specializes in Gerontological, cardiac, med-surg, peds.

Something is very wrong when some bureaucrat decides who lives and who dies.

Well, that "bureaucrat" got a bigass Christmas bonus...

Specializes in ICU-Stepdown.

Something is very wrong when a beaurocrat decides what your medical treatment should and should not be. They don't know you, never see you, and in many cases, have minimal (if any) medical knowledge anyway.

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