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Insurance denies coverage for teen’s surgery to treat severe epilepsy
In our series “The Cost of Denial,” NBC News’ Maggie Vespa reports on a 13-year-old Illinois girl who suffers from as many as four seizures a day. Insurance denied coverage for the…
When drug after drug failed, a teen hoped brain surgery could fix her daily seizures. Insurance denied it.
Several weeks after NBC News reached out to Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield about the denial, the insurer changed its policy to include coverage of deep brain stimulation for certain…
Children’s cancer and epilepsy research get a boost with long-awaited funding
But the Medical Research Future Fund won’t reach its promised $1 billion in investments for another four years.…