{"id":19447,"date":"2022-01-31T08:28:56","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T13:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19447"},"modified":"2022-01-31T08:28:57","modified_gmt":"2022-01-31T13:28:57","slug":"cancer-patients-win-lawsuit-against-aetna-over-denied-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=19447","title":{"rendered":"Cancer patients win lawsuit against Aetna over denied treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Nick Moran for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Florida judge ruled against Aetna in a proposed class-action lawsuit over the payer&#8217;s denied coverage of proton beam radiation therapy for cancer patients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The two plaintiffs \u2014 one with breast cancer and one with prostate cancer \u2014 received recommendations from their oncologists to use proton beam radiation therapy to treat their cancer without damaging surrounding healthy tissue.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/cancer-patients-win-class-action-lawsuit-against-aetna-over-denied-treatment.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/cancer-patients-win-class-action-lawsuit-against-aetna-over-denied-treatment.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" class=\"wp-image-7787\" style=\"width: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/court-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong> The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Nick Moran for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) A Florida judge ruled against Aetna in a proposed class-action lawsuit over the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-actionscourt-decisions","category-medical-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19448,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19447\/revisions\/19448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}