{"id":20886,"date":"2023-02-14T09:57:11","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T14:57:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20886"},"modified":"2023-02-14T09:57:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-14T14:57:12","slug":"your-money-or-your-life-patient-on-50000-a-week-cancer-drug-fears-leaving-behind-huge-medical-debt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=20886","title":{"rendered":"Your Money or Your Life: Patient on $50,000-a-Week Cancer Drug Fears Leaving Behind Huge Medical Debt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Fred Schulte on February 14, 2023 for Kaiser Health Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After several rounds of treatment for a rare eye cancer \u2014 weekly drug infusions that could cost nearly $50,000 each \u2014 Paul Davis learned Medicare had abruptly stopped paying the bills.  <a href=\"https:\/\/khn.org\/news\/article\/rare-cancer-drug-50k-weekly-patient-weighs-survival-family-bankruptcy\/\">Here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>  <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"78\" class=\"wp-image-899\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1.png 1600w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-300x156.png 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-1024x533.png 1024w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/khn-logo1-390x205.png 390w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit National health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>&nbsp;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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Fred Schulte on February 14, 2023 for Kaiser Health Network After several rounds of treatment for a rare eye<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,200,15],"tags":[61,65,94],"class_list":["post-20886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-insurance","category-part-dprescription-drugs","tag-medicare","tag-medicare-part-d","tag-older-adults"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20886","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20886"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20887,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20886\/revisions\/20887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}