{"id":24511,"date":"2025-06-16T08:35:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24511"},"modified":"2025-06-16T08:36:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:36:28","slug":"not-accountable-to-anyone-as-insurers-issue-denials-some-patients-run-out-of-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=24511","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not Accountable to Anyone\u2019: As Insurers Issue Denials, Some Patients Run Out of Options"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

(By Lauren Sausser for KFF Health News)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

BRIDGEPORT, W.Va. \u2014 By the time Eric Tennant was diagnosed in 2023 with a rare cancer of the bile ducts, the disease had spread to his bones. He weighed 97 pounds and wasn\u2019t expected to survive a year with stage 4 cancer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two years later, grueling rounds of chemotherapy have slowed the cancer\u2019s progress, even as it has continued to spread. But chemotherapy has also ravaged Tennant\u2019s body and his quality of life. Continue reading here…<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kaiser Health News is a nonprofit national health polity news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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