Last September, New Jersey resident Jerson Hsieh was hit with a double whammy. First, he was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer, a type of head and neck cancer in which malignant tumors grow deep ...

Her doctor had prescribed proton therapy with the hope it would reduce the risk that Gray, 34, will experience heart problems in the future from excess radiation. Her insurance company, Blue Cross ...

Are a group of patients and physicians at the Roberts Proton Therapy Center of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia being treated appropriately and efficiently by insurance companies? That ...

For many families, cancer is the fight of their lives, but the News4 I-Team found some are having to endure another fight they never expected: getting their treatment covered by insurance. Critics say ...

The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has issued an update to its recommendations for medical insurance coverage regarding the use of proton beam therapy to treat cancer. The updated ...

Aug. 08--Health insurers almost always agree to pay for proton therapy for pediatric cancer patients, either initially or on appeal, suggesting that policies should be revised to explicitly allow the ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - When she was just 21-years-old Mariam Tariq's world was turned upside down after receiving a breast cancer diagnosis. The UC Santa Barbara student's semester of homework and exams ...

Insurance companies end up covering proton therapy treatment for pediatric cancer patients in 97 percent of the cases they originally deny once those decisions are appealed. Researchers analyzed five ...