Has anyone else been denied treatment for lack of money?

I hope they can help her, Special!

I am about ready to write her a check myself! Mine was all paid for by the BCCTP. I wouldn't be here if I hadn't qualified. Luckily, I was on unemployment from being laid off from my job at a museum. I do have a slightly rich brother in law who told my boymanfriend, "Don't worry about the money"!! He was ready to help, but I couldn't do that! I would never be able to pay him back. And I don't feel bad about it, cause the tobacco tax helped pay for it! I hope she found out good things today.

That was true. I had been diagnosed, but only to a very small imaging place that my PCP had sent me to. Then he sent me to this place that the armenians in glendale run, and she said lets just say you came here yesterday, so it was okay. I guess my PCP who is Armenian himself, is very highly regarded. But I think you are right, I think now you can already be diagnosed. Thats what it said for Arizona, when I read that one last night. I think it's great! It's such an excellent program, I don't think I could have dealt with having to deal with insurance companies on top of cancer.

This is just so sad (and makes me a little angry). I can't believe the hoops you have to jump through to get care. The more I read, the sadder I get. I can only imagine how stressful this is. Absolutely horrible....I get stressed out picking a cell phone plan....I can't imagine what you're going through. Thank goodness this community gave some options. I sincerely hope one of these agencies is able to help. Should it be this hard? Good grief!

The only thing I get angry about when they say there is a place or foundation that will help, believe me I have looked, is when some place like the pink fund gets money collected and given out for that reason say by a place like Avon, and it says right on Avon's site that it is to be used directly for women in need of treatment, the place then uses it to generate a list of places that may or may not help you! I remember when I was looking, and so many of the links are dead ones.

Not to mention how draining it is to be doing all the leg work and phone work and 'puter work, yourself. I know, because once I was diagnosed, I could no longer collect unemployment.

faithfulhearted, sorry you are going through this. Am I understanding you have Medicare Part A and Part B and not Medicare Advantage or a Medicare Supplement plan? I don't know much about them as only now getting my coverage in line but from what I'm reading that may be the case? Or do you have the additional coverage but with high co-pays? There are links here on BCo that deal with insurance though you have probably browsed those already.

Absolutely. I left out the Part D because you were talking about the medical coverage. I spoke with an agent last week who explained what you have written above and know I plan to stay away from the Medicare Supplement plans as they are very costly and don't provide much more than the Medicare Advantage plans. However I believe the Medicare Advantage plans are a better choice than the individual Medicare Part A and Medicare Part B plans alone? I, of course, still need more explanation from him as I've just mixed it up in my head again so will meet with him again in the next few days with questions I've written down this time.

I still wonder if you only have Part A and Part B (and maybe Part D)? That does not say I believe you should not be given treatment, no, you should get whatever you need.

I suppose I would have been denied treatment if I hadn't brought a check. I was a teacher with very good insurance, but still paid about 4,000.00 extra for the whole ordeal. There were tests ordered, surgery rooms used that insurance didn't completely pay for. In ca one needs medicare A and they( people 65 and older) need to pay for medicare B and then you also need a supplementary insurance. I have found that docs around here don't necessarily want/eager to see patients without the supplementary insurance cause medicare does not pay the entire invoice for services. good luck faithful we are all pulling for you.

Faithfulhearted, thats so great! I am glad he was able to help! I know it's still a lot of money, but it's not depressingly big! YAY!!! Please, tho, if anywhere in your travels you hear a newly dignosed woman, or of a woman getting her first mammo, and if she doesn't make much money, PLEASE PASS along the CDC thingy. It is paid for by the tobacco tax, almost exclusively, and I know I paid into it, and so did many of the people I love did too.