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Mashup Score: 7Join LLS in supporting the Accelerating Kids’ Access to Care - 2 day(s) ago
Kids who need specialized cancer care outside their home state face bureaucratic hurdles that cause dangerous delays. But there’s hope. The Accelerating Kids…
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Mashup Score: 9Surviving Blood Cancer Shouldn’t Lead to Financial Ruin - 4 day(s) ago
Over half of cancer patients have medical debt due to their treatment. Ask your U.S. Representative to work with LLS to champion legislation protecting blood cancer patients and survivors and end this toxic financial cycle.
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Mashup Score: 3LLS 2024 Advocacy Town Hall - 17 day(s) ago
Cancer treatment is far too expensive. And the costs are highly unpredictable. At our 2024 LLS Advocacy Town we discussed how we can work together in 2024 to…
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Mashup Score: 1LLS | Medigap And Pre-Existing Conditions - 18 day(s) ago
By Esteban Zapiain, advocate and blood cancer s urvivor | April 30, 2024 All patients deserve access to quality, affordable health plans. Fortunately, most insurance cannot use patients’ pre-existing conditions against them. But these protections don’t exist for Medicare Supplement Insurance, known as Medigap. In fact, Medigap is one of the only types of health coverage that can charge patients more, or deny them coverage, due to their age or health status. LLS is advocating for policies that would
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Mashup Score: 3
Likely more than 1 million people in Colorado have some form of medical debt. These seven charts explain how much they owe and where they live.
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Mashup Score: 9
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) – Marilyn Zydlo’s son Jimmy was diagnosed with stage three advanced Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2020 and had to undergo twelve rounds of chemotherapy. “It left him be…
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Mashup Score: 9States want to make it harder for health insurers to deny care, but firms might evade enforcement • Stateline - 30 day(s) ago
In recent years insurers have ratcheted up their use of prior authorization, which requires doctors to obtain approval before they’ll pay for certain drugs, treatments and procedures.
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Mashup Score: 5Hospitals Are Adding Billions in ‘Facility’ Fees for Routine Care - 1 month(s) ago
Unsuspecting patients are finding themselves at the mercy of institutions tacking on the bills.
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Mashup Score: 7J.J. and Mason’s story - 1 month(s) ago
In 2019, J.J.’s 9-year-old son Mason was diagnosed with leukemia. While treatment was initially successful, Mason relapsed the following year. He did not sur…
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Mashup Score: 2
The new regulation reverses a Trump-era policy that expanded access to health plans with fewer benefits than those sold on the Affordable Care Act’s marketplaces.
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We're thrilled to share that yesterday, the @HouseCommerce Health Subcommittee advanced the Accelerating Kids' Access to Care Act – bringing us one step closer to passing a bill that could save kids' lives 🙌🏾! Learn more about the bill ⬇️ https://t.co/uS22RBkAh6