Post-Dispatch Column Describes Area Man Being Denied Insurance Coverage for Cancer Therapy
St. Louis Post-Dispatch columnist Tony Messenger shares this story of a St. Louis-area man being denied insurance coverage for a lifesaving cancer therapy. The SLMMS insurance survey in December 2016 reported the physicians experience many delays and denials in obtaining insurance approval, particularly involving new technology or new therapies. (93% of physicians stated that getting new technology pre-certified is difficult or very difficult.)
