Big Insurance Met Its Match When It Turned Down a Top Trial Lawyer’s Request for Cancer Treatment Blue Cross and Blue Shield denied payment for the proton therapy Robert “Skeeter” Salim’s doctor ordered to fight his throat cancer.
Series: Uncovered: How the Insurance Industry Denies Coverage to Patients Health insurers reject millions of claims for treatment every year in America.
After dozens of tests and visits to specialists, he received his diagnosis: stage 4 throat cancer.
Dr. Clifton Fuller, his oncologist at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, called it “massive oral disease.”.
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At that point, Salim seemed in danger of joining millions of other Americans denied payment for medical treatment.
He was, in fact, an aggressive litigator who had been named one of the 100 best trial lawyers in America. »
