Insurance and Legal Rights Information
Can’t Work? Where to Turn for Help
by Dennis Liotta, Esq
Figure skating champion and cancer survivor Scott Hamilton once said, “You are going to go through a lot of stuff in your life, and you can look at it as debilitating, or you can look at it as a challenge.” Dealing with cancer arguably will be one of the hardest things you do in your life.
Cancer and the Law
Do You Know Your Legal Rights?
by Rodney Warner, Esq.
A cancer diagnosis can affect more than just your health. If treatment goes well and you have better than adequate health insurance, a strong support system, sufficient savings, and an understanding employer, you have a good chance of returning to life as you knew it before the diagnosis. But for many people diagnosed with cancer, the crisis can spill over into their employment, marital relationship, and other aspects of daily life.
Can You Afford Cancer?
by Mark Fesen, MD, FACP
The last thing you need to be concerned about when you’re dealing with cancer is how to pay for treatment. Yet many survivors with little or no insurance have to do just that. This is no time to tell you that you should have made health insurance a higher priority. Instead, let’s explore how you can get the care you need.
Know Your Legal Rights in the Workplace
by Debra J. Wolf, ESQ
For many people, a cancer diagnosis does not mean they need to stop working. Nonetheless, coordinating a busy work schedule with doctor visits, treatments, or time off when feeling ill can be daunting. Employers can be understanding, but not every worker coping with cancer receives the support he or she may need from the workplace.
Getting the Most Out of Your Health Insurance
by Kimberly Calder, MPS
If you or a loved one is living with cancer, you know how important your health insurance is to your health and financial stability. Since virtually all health plans are shifting more of the costs onto their enrollees, it is wise to make sure you are getting the best value out of your health plan.
What You Should Know About Disability Benefits
by Gerald B. Kagan, ESQ
Cancer has temporarily interrupted your career. Treatment is proceeding successfully, but you can’t work. Fortunately, you are entitled to disability benefits through your prior employer’s insurance. You apply and provide required physician information. Surely, the benefits will be approved, right? Wrong.
What to Do When Your Insurer Won’t Pay
by Laurie Todd
Diagnosed in 2005 with late-stage appendix cancer, I fought my health insurer's denial of care and won. Here are some things you can do to reverse insurance denials.
Tracking Your Healthcare Information
by Deresa Claybrook, MS, RHIT
After a cancer diagnosis, it can be incredibly helpful to have an easy-to-use method to track your healthcare information. This is especially true if you are seeing multiple physicians. Your healthcare information is often scattered, and there is no real linkage with your healthcare information behind the scenes. Physicians do not routinely forward everything over to the next physicians even though they each keep a separate record on you. Here are six simple steps that can help you track your healthcare information or that of your loved one.
