{"id":745,"date":"2026-08-17T23:09:39","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=745"},"modified":"2026-08-17T23:09:39","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:09:39","slug":"my-health-insurer-wants-cancer-to-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=745","title":{"rendered":"My health insurer wants cancer to win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><span>On Nov. 19, 2024, I was diagnosed with polycythemia vera, a rare blood cancer. The day was a blur, but I remember my hematologist, Dr. Fadi Haddad at Houston\u2019s MD Anderson Cancer Center, drawing a picture of my pelvic bones on medical paper to explain my body\u2019s blood production. A gene mutation was causing my bones to make too much red blood, he told me. With treatment, I had perhaps 30 years until my marrow started to give out. After that, treatment could offer perhaps five to seven more years. Then acute myeloid leukemia would set in.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=743\">Why we tolerate homelessness<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>That timeline suggested I could live into my 80s \u2014 not bad, all things considered. It assumed, however, access to a specialty medication called Jakafi that would cost me about $9,000 per month (you read that right: per <\/span><i><span>month<\/span><\/i><span>). Dr. Haddad suggested that I apply for a copay-assistance card through Incyte, the drug\u2019s manufacturer. The card would pay my insurer for the Jakafi for the first couple months of each year and meet my deductible, after which insurance would kick in. I did, and soon a pill bottle arrived in the mail that delivered extraordinary results.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>But America\u2019s byzantine for-profit health system was, it seems, determined to hinder my healing. Specifically, my health insurer insists that the money paid to it by the drug-manufacturer through my copay assistance card doesn\u2019t count toward the minimum cash deductible I have to meet. This is a clear violation of Texas state law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Jakafi was a miracle drug. Before the drug, my hemoglobin and hematocrit numbers had been so high that every couple weeks, I needed a therapeutic phlebotomy \u2014 \u201cbloodletting,\u201d the ancients might have called it. I had terrible night sweats. My spleen and liver were enlarged enough that they could be felt under my skin. With Jakafi, my numbers stabilized, the night sweats disappeared, and the size of my internal organs normalized. Eventually, I even got cleared to play pick-up basketball again.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Best of all, the manufacturer\u2019s copay card helped me reach our out-of-pocket maximum by late January. I say \u201cbest of all,\u201d because my health plan has a high deductible and a high out-of-pocket maximum, both of which tend to go up every year. I have a wife and two small children, and it would almost be easier psychologically speaking to forgo treatment than to leave them with a mountain of medical debt. So when I sailed through my first year of treatment without paying a dime for Jakafi, I felt like I\u2019d dodged a bullet. By fall 2025, I rarely thought about my blood cancer at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last March, however, I received a bill from Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield, my insurer, for $4,793.99 for a 15-day supply of Jakafi. I called them immediately, and they told me that the funds on Incyte\u2019s copay card had been exhausted. Insurance had covered the first two months of medication, the Anthem representative said \u2014 which didn\u2019t quite make sense, if I hadn\u2019t met my deductible, but conversations with health reps rarely make sense. I needed to re-enroll for the copay assistance program, Anthem told me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Incyte representatives, however, assured me that reenrollment happened in January automatically. <\/span><i><span>They<\/span><\/i><span> had covered those months of medication, not Anthem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I spent more than 15 hours on the phone over the next few weeks talking to an endless series of Anthem agents and employees at Carelon Rx, Anthem\u2019s pharmacy arm. Finally, someone at Carelon Rx mentioned that I was on a \u201ccopay accumulator program.\u201d So far as I knew, I had never heard that combination of words uttered before. A quick internet search explained why.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Copay accumulator programs seem to be based on the belief that patients have to pay their portion of their plan\u2019s deductible and out-of-pocket maximum <\/span><i><span>personally <\/span><\/i><span>before insurance covers subsequent medical bills. No stipulation of this sort is likely to turn up in the documents of your health plan. Yet this is the logic of how copay accumulator programs work, and many insurers avail themselves of it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In my case, Incyte\u2019s copay card had indeed paid for my January and February orders of Jakafi. But because they had placed me in a copay accumulator program, Anthem never applied that money to my deductible or out-of-pocket maximum. They behaved as if that money had never been paid. Which meant I had to come up with the more than $10,000 deductible before insurance would kick in<\/span> <span>\u2014 or forgo my medication.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>However, that internet search turned up another important detail: what Anthem was doing appeared to be illegal. Colorado (where I work), Texas (where I live), and 23 other states have written stronger legislation, outlawing copay accumulator programs entirely. <\/span><span>The Colorado law<\/span><span>, enacted in 2025 and <\/span><span>often called the \u201cCopay Accumulator Bill,\u201d<\/span> <span>is a typical example. It requires \u201chealth insurers and PBMs to count any amount paid by the patient or on behalf of the patient by another person, including through a cost-sharing assistant program, toward the patient\u2019s annual out-of-pocket limit and any cost-sharing requirement, such as deductibles, under the patient\u2019s health benefit plan.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The reasons for laws like Colorado\u2019s are clear enough. No matter who pays a patient\u2019s deductible and out-of-pocket max, her insurance company still gets paid. If another party pays an amount equivalent to that patient\u2019s out-of-pocket max and the insurance company then makes the patient pay that amount <\/span><i><span>again<\/span><\/i><span>, it has doubled her out-of-pocket max without telling them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In some states, the use of copay accumulator programs is largely unregulated. Worse still, the novel application of a 52-year-old federal law allows insurance companies to leverage the programs against patients with certain types of health coverage \u2014 even in states where the practice is banned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=741\">The Russian Church\u2019s war on Europe<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The Employee Retirement Income Security Act, or ERISA, was originally meant to ensure that employee benefit plans met certain minimum standards nationwide. To do that, Congress crafted ERISA to preempt every state law involving employee benefit plans. The law\u2019s \u201csaving clause\u201d allows states to regulate insurance \u2014 but \u201cself-insured\u201d employer plans, in which the employer rather than the insurance company pays for medical claims, do not count as insurance. This distinction allows some health plans to avoid copay accumulator bans even in states that have them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Thankfully, my employer offers a fully insured health plan, so Colorado\u2019s SB 23-195 <\/span><i><span>does <\/span><\/i><span>apply to me. That explains why I received my Jakafi without trouble after the law went into effect Jan. 1, 2025. But by Mar. 3, 2026, when I received the bill for $4,309.96, Anthem had adapted. Its new approach is to delay and obfuscate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>At any rate, that\u2019s the conclusion I had drawn by Mar. 17, when I filed a grievance with Anthem and began a parallel process through our benefits administrator. In my appeal letter, I meticulously exegeted the Colorado law: Anthem had claimed that \u201cCO-195 is not applicable to this member because they live in Texas.\u201d The law says, \u201ca covered person,\u201d I wrote, not \u201ca covered Coloradan.\u201d It says you must \u201cinclude any amount paid\u201d on my behalf as counting toward my deductible and out-of-pocket maximum. Anything else is \u201cdouble-dipping\u201d and \u201cexactly what the state\u2019s Copay Accumulator Bill outlawed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Therefore, I told them, I should be reimbursed for funds spent after my deductible and out-of-pocket maximum were met \u2014 and that happened back in January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Anthem says they will respond to a grievance or appeal within 30 days. In my case, it took them until May 19, when they finally followed up with our benefits administrator: \u201cWe have received confirmation from our team that the Out-of-Pocket (OOP) Limit of $11,000.00 has been fully satisfied,\u201d the letter read.\u00a0 I thought for a moment that I had won. Then it added a qualifier: \u201cwith no overpayment identified on the account.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>No overpayment. <\/span><i><span>What sort of creative accounting allowed them to come to that conclusion?<\/span><\/i><span> I wondered.<\/span> <span>In the months since Anthem declined to honor the Incyte copay payments, I\u2019d incurred other medical expenses, which I\u2019d been forced to pay out-of-pocket \u2014 I was owed reimbursement for these expenses.<\/span> <span>Then I noticed an Excel sheet attached to the email, one probably requested by our benefits administrator and forwarded to me. It included columns titled \u201cAccumulated Amount,\u201d \u201cRunning Total,\u201d and \u201cReason\u201d among others. Each time Anthem processed an order of Jakafi paid for by the drug\u2019s manufacturer, the running total for my out-of-pocket maximum would jump by more than $5,000. But a day or two later, that amount would mysteriously be removed. On Jan. 20, my total was $5,596.25. On Jan. 21, it was $162.11. On Jan. 30, it was back up to $5,596.25 \u2014 and on Feb. 4 it was $430.39. Under the \u201cReason\u201d given for the Jan. 21 and Feb. 4 deductions, Anthem had simply written, \u201cMiscellaneous adjustments.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I knew very well what \u201cmiscellaneous adjustments\u201d kept these Jakafi orders from counting toward my deductible or out-of-pocket maximum. I was <\/span><i><span>still <\/span><\/i><span>on a copay accumulator plan. Anthem had changed nothing. Instead, a hospital visit for my youngest daughter had put us over the $11,000 threshold, meeting our family\u2019s out-of-pocket maximum. That we could pay the hospital\u2019s bill over several years at zero interest was little comfort. The bill should have been Anthem\u2019s to pay \u2014 and it was hardly the only one. By my calculation, Anthem still owes me more than $10,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>If my story were unusual, I could chalk it up to clunky administrative processes or a missed keystroke somewhere. It turns out, however, that one of my coworkers is having the same trouble with Anthem. A member of that coworker\u2019s family suffers from a rare autoimmune disease. She, too, needs expensive medication. That drug\u2019s manufacturer gave them a copay assistance card worth thousands. Anthem absorbed \u2014 in my opinion, stole \u2014 that money, too. In my small department, Anthem had put two of us on copay assistance programs, thereby absorbing more than $20,000 of money intended for the treatment of people with rare diseases.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The noncompliance of insurance companies with state copay accumulator bans has received little media attention, but the industry has every incentive to skirt the law. Johnson &amp; Johnson <\/span><span>sued<\/span><span> Cigna, another insurer, for $100 million for appropriating the money J&amp;J gave patients to help pay for their medicines \u2014 and that is just one drug company and one insurer. Imagine how much money the American insurance industry is making by secretly doubling the deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums of thousands upon thousands of people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>All of which means that it\u2019s high time that something is done. Congress should address the issues being caused by ERISA, and should pass legislation against copay accumulators: a federal version of Colorado\u2019s SB 23-195 would be a good choice. Americans need a blanket requirement that insurance companies accept any and all money paid on behalf of the patient as counting toward a patient\u2019s deductible and out-of-pocket maximum. Patients also urgently need a recourse to defend themselves when companies openly break the law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last month Anthem\u2019s pharmacy manager, Carelon Rx, notified me that the insurance company had come to a decision in my case. Their earlier decision that my out-of-pocket maximum had been met in January has been conveniently forgotten. I now owe them $4,793.99, they said. I spent several more hours on the phone, walking through the details of Colorado SB-195 with two more agents. In both cases, they said they could do nothing except initiate another review, one I can only assume will go nowhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>I neither have $4,793.99 lying around nor the ability to call an organization to the carpet that insures more than a third of Americans. Thousands of other Americans with rare diseases find themselves in similar positions. We are powerless to defend ourselves against the predatory practices of the health insurance industry, and we need help.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/cityflowjournal.com\/?p=739\">Will the Gulfies dump Trump?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Nov. 19, 2024, I was diagnosed with polycythemia vera, a rare blood cancer. The day was a blur, but I remember my hematologist, Dr. Fadi Haddad at Houston\u2019s MD Anderson Cancer Center, drawing a picture of my pelvic bones on medical paper to explain my body\u2019s blood production. 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