BATON ROUGE – After being denied by his insurance company multiple times, one man decided not to wait for a cancer treatment that could buy him more time or possibly eliminate his cancer. James and Rebecca Corkern are now encouraging others not to give up.
In January 2021, James Corkern learned he had stage four colorectal cancer. It spread to his liver. He’s gone through 46 rounds of chemotherapy. Five times, doctors have treated tumors in his liver. Then their insurance, Blue Cross Blue Shield Nebraska, denied the sixth ablation due to an existing nodule in his lung.
“Nowhere on my medical charts does it say I have lung cancer,” said James Corkern…