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Kay Hagan: “If the treatment is a drug that has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration or has not been specifically…”

On the recordJuly 20, 2010
If the treatment is a drug that has not been approved by the Food and Drug Administration or has not been specifically approved for a child's particular disease, then insurance companies typically will not cover it because the treatment is considered 'off-label' or 'experimental.'
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Kay Hagan
Democratic · North Carolina

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Hagan discusses insurance challenges for unapproved treatments for children.

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