Unfortunately, insurers routinely deny access to proton therapy when a physician appropriately recommends it to treat tumors where traditional radiation won’t work or will damage healthy tissue and cause dangerous secondary health issues. The current broken insurance review and appeals processes is causing too many cancer patients to endure health risks, anxiety, and financial hardship because of unfair delays and inappropriate delays and denials of care.
That’s why cancer patients and family members are telling their stories and calling on state insurance commissioners to adopt principles of our Cancer Patients’ Timely Treatment Bill of Rights to hold insurers accountable for providing fair, timely and transparent access to cancer treatment.
We hope you will join our campaign. If we all raise our voices and share our stories, they will hear us!
Here are some things you can do today:
Facebook: Alliance for Proton Therapy Access
Twitter: @PTAccess4All
I am advocating with the Alliance for Proton Therapy Access to make sure all cancer patients seeking proton therapy receive fair and timely payment decisions from their health insurers! Join me in this fight by signing this petition: http://allianceforprotontherapy.org/take-action/
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I needed to focus all my energy on fighting my disease, not my insurance company. That’s why I’ve joined the Alliance for Proton Therapy Access to advocate to fix broken insurance review and appeals processes for all cancer patients! Learn how you can get involved: CancerCareDenied.org
I am advocating with @PTAccess4All to make sure all cancer patients seeking proton therapy receive fair and timely payment decisions from their health insurers! Join me in this fight by signing this petition: http://allianceforprotontherapy.org/take-action/
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I needed to focus all my energy on fighting my disease, not my insurer. That’s why I’ve joined with @PTAccess4All to advocate to fix broken insurance review and appeals processes for all cancer patients! Learn more: CancerCareDenied.org
These downloadable resources and talking points can be helpful if you have an opportunity to talk about the Alliance with organizations and networks you’re involved with:
Talking Points
If you have ideas for connecting with other potential advocates, want to share your story with the media or know of other patient groups that would benefit from learning about the Alliance, please use our online form to share your story or ideas!