{"id":8921,"date":"2011-08-08T15:36:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-08T19:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8921"},"modified":"2011-08-08T14:42:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-08T18:42:17","slug":"breast-cancer-patient-denied-medicaid-coverage-because-hes-a-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=8921","title":{"rendered":"Breast Cancer Patient Denied Medicaid Coverage Because He&#8217;s A Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SOUTH CAROLINA<\/strong> &#8212; A breast cancer patient in Charleston, SC who did not have insurance was denied treatment through a state Medicaid program because he was a man.<br \/>\nOnly 26-years-old, <strong>Raymond Johnson<\/strong> of Charleston, South Carolina decided to have a exam after feeling a lump, thinking that it was probably just a cyst.<\/p>\n<p>To his surprise, he was diagnosed with breast cancer, a rare condition that only one in 100 men will get per year. As a tile layer, he didn&#8217;t make enough money to afford an insurance plan.<\/p>\n<p>A patient advocate, <strong>Susan Appelbaum<\/strong>, had him apply for the state Medicaid program, believing that he&#8217;d qualify. But he&#8217;d received a rejection notice instead, citing that the program was for women only.<\/p>\n<p>With each treatment totaling around $10,000, the bills are quickly piling up.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Right now I&#8217;m stuck with these bills and I&#8217;m trying to find a way,&#8221; said <strong>Raymond<\/strong>, who just underwent his second round of chemotherapy at Roper Saint Francis Hospital.<strong> Appelbaum<\/strong> has contacted lawmakers in hopes of getting the Medicaid rule changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH CAROLINA &#8212; A breast cancer patient in Charleston, SC who did not have insurance was denied treatment through a state Medicaid program because he was a man. Only 26-years-old, Raymond Johnson of Charleston, South Carolina decided to have a exam after feeling a lump, thinking that it was probably just a cyst. To his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}