CIGNA Denies Service to a 17 Year Old Girl With Cancer
CIGNA is a disgraceful company that is happy to allow a 17 girl die of cancer in the name of profits.
I’d like you to know a little bit about Nataline Sarkisyan, the child who will die unless we get this decision reversed.
She could be your daughter or mine. She might even be the daughter of Edward Hanway, the CEO of Cigna.
Nataline Sarkisyan, recently treated at UCLA Medical Center with a bone marrow transplant for curing leukemia, developed a rare complication from the chemotherapy and transplant causing many of her organs, including her liver and kidneys to shut down. Her doctors say that she needs a transplant but CIGNA has ignored this medical decision and calls the transplant “experimental” as justification for denying the treatment.
“My daughter survived two bouts of cancer, and against all odds has been stable even with so many of her organs not working, only to now be told that she can not get the only treatment that will save her life because some administrator in some office thinks it is too expensive,” said Hilda Sarkisyan. “We needed help in standing up against this insurance provider, and of course it was the nurses who stepped forward.”
1-818-500-6262 is the number for the assholes at CIGNA.
UPDATE: Cigna caved yesterday, but it was too late. The girl was waiting for a liver for 6 days, and the hospital wouldn’t do the transplant unless CIGNA authorized it. By the time CIGNA’s administrators got done dawdling after massive public pressure, Nataline was too far gone, and died hours after CIGNA reversed its decision.
I hope the folks at CIGNA have a very self-satisfied Christmas. They saved their company a couple of bucks (from the billions they already have), and while someone’s kid died unnecessarily, CIGNA’s wealthy executives saved their bottom line.
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