{"title":"How courts view experimental treatments.","authors":"K L Gallinari","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The consequences of lawsuits brought by patients to obtain insurance coverage for autologous bone marrow treatment for breast cancer illustrate the problems that arise when health plans seek to exclude \"experimental\" treatments.</p>","PeriodicalId":79665,"journal":{"name":"Journal of health care benefits","volume":"3 5","pages":"37-43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1994-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of health care benefits","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The consequences of lawsuits brought by patients to obtain insurance coverage for autologous bone marrow treatment for breast cancer illustrate the problems that arise when health plans seek to exclude "experimental" treatments.