Infant’s life-changing surgery denied as parents battle insurance hurdles

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Cameron Casacci’s medical issues happened shortly after birth on Sept. 11, 2024.

His parents, Brad and Alyssa Casacci, said he had a stroke on the left side of his brain and he now has seizures.

“Our epileptologist here in Buffalo said that Cam has what they call, medication resistant epilepsy, which means that the epilepsy is just not controlled by these medications. So he recommended a very drastic extreme surgery known as a hemispherectomy, where they go in and basically disconnect the left hemisphere of Cam’s brain from the right hemisphere of his brain in hopes of bringing him seizure freedom.”…

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