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Discussion started Doctor / Nurse
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Financial Help for Prescriptio...
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Do you are a loved one need help in paying for the high cost of prescription medications required in treating your cancer? If so, I may be of service. I represe...
106/25/08 Message Rating
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stage 4 treatment w/ kaiser
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i have stage 4 colon cancer. undergoing chemotherapy at a university hospital. my employer is switching insurance to kaiser next month. is anyone familiar ...
106/12/08 Message Rating
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Pre Existing Clause Challenged
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.....and won!  Sometimes this is set in place to delay payment on expensive treatments such as cancer.  My husband and I have recently experienced thi...
006/10/08 Message Rating
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Health Insurance help
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  I want to move out of state, and I am actually thinking about quitting my job and starting over. How long will my insurance cover me before I must p...
105/21/08 Message Rating
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disability insurance
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I have multiple myeloma and collecting SSD and group disability insurance. I need to know if my myeloma becomes stable (as it has before but returned) will the ...
004/22/08 Message Rating
Discussion started Caregiver
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Financial Assistance
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I did not think to persue any aid but I did and qualified. Check with Carecare.org  and  Patientadvocate.org.or copays.org it does not help with ...
003/03/08 Message Rating
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Private Insurance Carriers and...
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It amazes me not only that some private insurance carriers don't like to pay for cell culture assay tests but that they don't emphatically mandate it as...
102/24/08 Message Rating
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Sutent, overwhelmed by cost
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I am 74 yrs. old. And to find out now that I have Kidney Cancer and Cancerous Nodules in my Lungs caused by the Kidney. The Oncologist is going nto put me on Su...
102/23/08 Message Rating
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HIFU insurance claims services
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I had the HIFU  treatment on Feb. 7 with Dr. Suarez in Cancun.  Has anyone dealt with MDabroad or Insurance Claims Filing Service for the processing o...
002/14/08 Message Rating
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Lack of insurance coverage
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My husband was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer August of 07.  Since then his insurance co. has paid for everything.  Now our doctor wants him to star...
201/20/08 Message Rating
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Social Security disability ben...
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My late husband was diagnosed with stage 4 stomach cancer. We applied immediately for his social security disability, he was deemed qualified BUT had to wait fi...
101/12/08 Message Rating
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Insurance
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Where does a person go, when they have health insurance, but it does not pay 100 percent of medical bills, but only 80 percent. I am one year cancer free now, a...
501/10/08 Message Rating
Discussion started Caregiver
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insurance
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my father is 56 years old , he has stomach cancer  and  they just mowed from Russia and I am looking for health insurance for him , does anyone out th...
001/07/08 Message Rating
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coverage
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I have a 66 year old uncle with Glioblastoma multiforme. He is currently under going radiation an chemotherapy. In the hospital they had him on Temodar. Th...
012/07/07 Message Rating
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Desperate Patient Needs Tarcev...
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My uncle was just diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer and severe/widespread bone metastases.  It has spread everywhere in his body except his neck, toes and...
010/27/07 Message Rating
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Any from covered by PPHA?
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Is there anyone out there covered by PPHA and has had cytoreduction and/or Intraperitoneal hyperthermic chemotherapy covered and paid for by PPHA (Progressive P...
010/24/07 Message Rating
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Medicare Modernization Act
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Medicare Modernization Act Did Not Change Chemotherapy As Feared DURHAM, N.C. -- Cancer patients receiving chemotherapy have not noticed a restriction in their ...
110/09/07 Message Rating
Discussion started Caregiver
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URGENT HELP NEEDED PLEASE
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My brother has surgery in March and has a recurrent malignant brain tunor Grade IV.  He has been denied for Avastin/CPT-11 treatment and we have a hearing ...
407/10/07 Message Rating
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Free Chemo Medication
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We no longer have insurance and could not afford my husband's Temador. We found Schering's Commitment to Care Program. They are now mailing us his Temad...
007/06/07 Rated by 2 members
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Issels Clinic in Santa Barbara
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Anyone familiar with this clinic and its protcols, please be kind enough to enlighten me.  Does Medicare cover this clinic and whatever fees (hospitalizati...
306/25/07 Message Rating
Discussion started Caregiver
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Uninsured or UnderInsured?
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If you are looking for a way to save money on Medical,RX,Vision and or dental please contact me. i will show you how me and my family save money on these servic...
106/12/07 Message Rating
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Inconclusive CT scan
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Hello! My name is Megg.  I am a 30 yo female with a golf ball size lump just above my collar bone.  This started out as a pea sized lump in Novem...
206/04/07 Message Rating
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PSA and Medicare
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As I am watchful waiting with a very high PSA (60), it is necessary to have a PSA test every three months. Medicare will only approve one test per year. Do...
006/02/07 Message Rating
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coinsurance
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The latest insurance policies require a coinsurance payment by patients.For those of us with complex cancer treatments the costs patients now have to pay can be...
006/01/07 Message Rating
Discussion started Survivor
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Health Insurance
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My Husband may have to leave the Country and I will loose my health benefits from his Employer when this happens.  Since I am a Cancer Patient I know it wi...
005/25/07 Message Rating
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