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Confusing and high bills for cancer patients add to anxiety and suffering

  • Written by Mary Politi, Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of Public Health Sciences, Washington University in St Louis
Confusing and high bills for cancer patients add to anxiety and sufferingHaving cancer is bad enough, and dealing with the costs and confusion of billing systems makes things harder.KieferPix/Shutterstock.com

Weeks after my father passed away from cancer in 2010, my newly widowed mother received a bill for US$11,000.

Insurance retroactively denied a submitted claim for one of his last chemotherapy treatments, claiming...

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