{"id":25188,"date":"2025-11-21T08:23:53","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25188"},"modified":"2025-11-21T08:23:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T13:23:54","slug":"after-series-of-denials-his-insurer-approved-doctor-recommended-cancer-care-it-was-too-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=25188","title":{"rendered":"After Series of Denials, His Insurer Approved Doctor-Recommended Cancer Care. It Was Too Late."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

For nearly three years, Eric Tennant endured chemotherapy infusions, rounds of radiation, biopsies, and hospitalizations that left him weak and depleted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s good to be home,\u201d he said after one hospital stay in early June, \u201cyet I\u2019m tired and ready to get on with things.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2023, Tennant, of Bridgeport, West Virginia, was diagnosed with cholangiocarcinoma, a rare cancer of the bile ducts that had spread throughout his body. 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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