Word: marrow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...support" of Christy's fight for an injunction. At 3 o'clock that afternoon, wearing his new-medicine hat, he and two UCLA colleagues met with other oncologists and Health Net officials at the Hyatt Hotel near Los Angeles International Airport for another meeting of the company's bone-marrow committee...
...call struck Slamon as unusual. For one thing, he had never spoken to Ossorio before. For another, he was not Christy's doctor, a fact Ossorio must have known, given that Glaspy sat on Health Net's bone-marrow committee. Slamon said he knew nothing about Christy's case, but he offered to look into it. The following Friday, Slamon told Glaspy he had decided UCLA should pay for the treatment...
...Slamon says he made the decision to pay for the transplant after discovering that Christy by then had already undergone the initial marrow harvest. "We should not have taken her halfway into the stream without being prepared to take her all the way across," he says. He insists that the decision was his alone, and not the result of any coercion from Health...
...think this system is robbing physicians of their essential goodness," says Dr. Roy B. Jones, a University of Colorado bone-marrow-transplant specialist who saw Christy deMeurers during her journey. "I think physicians are slanting the opinions they give based upon monetary considerations that in many cases they wouldn't have allowed to influence them before." Vincent Riccardi, a neurologist and expert on "Elephant Man" disease, says the issue of trust in California is already moot. He has gone so far as to establish a company, American Medical Consumers, that plans one day to dispatch "personal medical advocates" to negotiate...
...care than most of the other plans surveyed and more on marketing, salaries and other administrative expenses. The company is known among California doctors as one of the most aggressively cost conscious in the state, a reputation that stems in part from an earlier attempt to deny a bone-marrow transplant to a subscriber named Nelene Fox, who by coincidence lived just minutes from the deMeurerses. The jury in that case awarded the Fox family $89.1 million, later negotiated down to an undisclosed...