PITTSBURGH (Newsradio 1020 KDKA) - Dozens of patients attended an advocacy session Friday sponsored by the Pennsylvania Health Access Network. There, patients hurt by the pending UPMC-Highmark split learned how they will be affected and what they can do about it.
There's not much time until the end of the UPMC-Highmark consent decree. It will end on June 30th.
Nancy Spohn of Butler is used to fighting the clock. She has battled ovarian cancer for three and a half years. She's losing her UPMC doctor who helped her fight ovarian cancer because he won't be able to accept her Highmark insurance once the decree comes to an end.
"It's a stressful situation just day to day, but to have this on top of it is almost overwhelming. Very overwhelming, it's unbearable," Spohn told KDKA Radio's Joe DeStio. "I don't feel that someone knew after all this time that transpired at Magee and my doctor there, that they can fully understand off a piece of paper how I am."
The Pennsylvania Health Access Network is telling patients to contact their lawmakers. A ruling on the split could still come still from the state Supreme Court.
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