# @nbcnews on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DEKyF36Je94
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/25750710-nbcnews-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2024-12-29T16:10:26.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NBC News (@NBCNews) — https://gondola.cc/NBCNews

## Caption

Kay Hsu estimates that over the past three years, she has spent roughly 40 hours a month fighting for reimbursements from insurance companies whose coverage was offered through her workplace. This year, Hsu’s problems were with Cigna Healthcare over her PET scans.

A PET scan, denied by her insurer and instead paid out of pocket by Hsu’s company, found her cancer had returned. Had her company not paid for it, she said she would have been unaware of the metastasis for which she is currently undergoing surgery.

An NBC News investigation found that a cancer diagnosis, already a crushing blow to patients, is often compounded by insurance company denials of treatments and screenings recommended by a patient’s physician. And this year, Medicare began denying claims for breast cancer imaging needed to identify cancers among many women.

Read more at the link in bio.

📷️ @jeenahmoon for @NBCNews

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| NBC News | @NBCNews | https://gondola.cc/NBCNews | Television News Network |
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