Last September, New Jersey resident Jerson Hsieh was hit with a double whammy. First, he was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer, a type of head and neck cancer in which malignant tumors grow deep ...

Are a group of patients and physicians at the Roberts Proton Therapy Center of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia being treated appropriately and efficiently by insurance companies? That ...

Her doctor had prescribed proton therapy with the hope it would reduce the risk that Gray, 34, will experience heart problems in the future from excess radiation. Her insurance company, Blue Cross ...

Feb. 02--RICHMOND-- A state panel will look at how insurance companies cover proton radiation therapy, the type of treatment now done in Virginia only at Hampton University's Proton Therapy Institute.

Insurance companies end up covering proton therapy treatment for pediatric cancer patients in 97 percent of the cases they originally deny once those decisions are appealed. Researchers analyzed five ...