A lot of the headache when it comes to paying for cancer comes from convincing insurance companies that they need to pay for certain treatments and tests. Dr. Allyson Ocean, a Medical Oncologist at Weill Cornell, says she is on the phone with insurance companies nearly everyday trying to make sure her patients can get the treatment they need, and get it paid for.
“My best advice to work around the system of whether or not drugs or tests can be covered for cancer is to make sure you have an advocate in your field working for you,” says Dr. Ocean. “The frustrating part for me is that sometimes we even have to educate the insurance companies and say, ‘There’s a reason why I want to use this medicine.'”
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