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The boy's family says their insurance company will not cover a prescribed treatment for the boy's brain tumor.

The boy's family says their insurance company will not cover a prescribed treatment for the boy's brain tumor.

By Associated Press

 A western South Dakota family is in court to force insurance coverage for a 3-year-old boy who has a brain tumor.

 Doctors in Minnesota removed a brain tumor and later a spine tumor from Cooper Urbanak and suggested he be treated with high-dose chemotherapy followed by a stem-cell transplant at a cost of $400,000.

 The insurance provider, Sanford Health Plan, notified Joe and Missy Urbaniak that the treatment for their son would not be covered, calling it "experimental/ investigational" treatment.

 Sanford Health Plan executive Ryan Bohy says he can't talk specifically about the case, but says the company continues to
work with the family and has treated it fairly.

 The couple's attorney wants a trial this month on his request that the company be required to provide the treatment.
     

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Thursday, Jan 8 at 9:48 AM What the heck wrote ...

We pay for our insurance - and it is quite expensive, but when it comes to covering things - they do not want to pay up on their end. Why do we even bother with insurance they are a bunch of crooks

Thursday, Jan 8 at 8:57 AM jenny wrote ...

A perfect example of what's wrong with the health insurance companies today. How dare you......a system of greed while CEO's get millions each year.

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