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New Medicare Prescription Plan
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The new Medicare drug benefit plan is part of a much broader message. With oncology drugs accounting for about 69% of total Part B spending on prescription drug...
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Tarceeva
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Hi to anyone, Does anyone have insurance for this Tarceeva, or do have to pay yourself? My mother, age 85, has lung cancer and her doctor has now recommend...
001/09/06 Message Rating
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Any Experience Dealing With Ka...
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Hi my mom is 81 and has medicare but Kaiser is the HMO that controls it. She is stage IV NSCLC and we want to look into having Cyberknife done on her liver mets...
007/29/05 Message Rating
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Looking to Help Un/under Insur...
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I am walking 16,000 miles through 48 states to raise money to help un/under insured cancer patients. www.thebigwalk.org. Please contact us if you need help
407/21/05 Message Rating
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Chemo Pill
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My sister has had breast cancer 3 times and brain cancer. She lives in a remote part of Oregon. To go to chemo and/or radiation, she has to travel 2 hours. Her ...
103/28/05 Message Rating
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Life Has Changed
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I was diagnosed with breast cancer in April 2003. My husband is self-employed and we had just ordered new health insurance because my COBRA was ending. The plan...
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Remission
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I think you are on the right track. Please get a second opinion. I went throught something like you are going through. Try a university hospital. They don't car...
012/28/04 Message Rating
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Chemoembolization
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Our battle has been a long one, but now our battle with insurance is becoming one that is taking what joy we have left. We were just told that our insurance wo...
211/29/04 Message Rating
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Changing The Identity of Medic...
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Under the new Medicare Prescription Bill (MMA) medical oncologists will be reimbursed for providing evaluation and management services, making referrals for dia...
011/27/04 Message Rating
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Changing The Identity of Medic...
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The new Medicare Bill (MMA) still has major flaws, in that it continues to provide incentives to administer chemotherapy, in the same way that surgeons have a f...
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no Insurance or Money
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Hi, my name is Kathy. I was diagnosed with Stage 2 cervical cancer. I have no insurance or money. I am scared - knowing I will die - lack of treatment. I cr...
410/18/04 Message Rating
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How to Pay After Insurance is ...
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I have been diagnosed with recurrence breast cancer in the bone. I am on treatment of Aredia and Faslodex once a month. As you know there is no cure at this tim...
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Tips on Helping Defer "high Co...
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I am a breast cancer patient for the past 7 years. The past two years my cancer has matastize to bone and liver area. Causing me to stop working and go on S.S...
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Social Security Lawyers
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Having been recently denied SSI for what I thought would be a qualifying condition, Glioma Astrocytoma, I'm looking for a recommendation for a California law fi...
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Social Security battles?
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What's it take to get the Social Security benefits that should be due? It was real easy for them to take the cash from my checks for the last 25 years of employ...
106/23/03 Message Rating
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Newly diagnosed
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Need any info!
405/09/02 Message Rating
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