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Mark Dendy, a tutor at Brightwood College, was informed in July that his insurer would no longer cover his life-saving drugs.
(Fox 40)
A California biology professor, suffering from a rare life-threatening disorder, said he "would die a slow death" without a life-saving drug that his insurance company stopped covering in July. Mark Dendy, 64, was diagnosed with Wilson's disease at age 27 and is expected to live for only 30 years, Fox reported.
The genetic disease causes accumulation of copper in the liver, brain and other vital organs. It is usually diagnosed between the ages of 5 and 35, according to the Mayo Clinic. Symptoms may include tiredness, lack of appetite, yellowing of the skin or eyes, accumulation of fluid in the legs or abdomen, problems with speech, swallowing or coordination and uncontrolled movements or muscle stiffness. Without treatment or intervention, copper accumulates and can reach life-threatening levels.
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"The prognosis was that I would be dead before I turned 30," Dendy told Fox 40.
Dendy said that without drugs, he "will die of a slow death".
(Fox 40)
But the doctors found a combination of drugs that kept his organs healthy, including Bausch and Lomb's Syprine, which he had been taking for 12 years. According to the media, since 2015, the cost of a medicine for a month has increased from $ 600 to $ 21,000. Dendy's insurer, Sutter Health Plus, sent him a rejection letter in July after finding the drug was not medically necessary.
"This particular drug is listed in the Sutter Health Plus form and is covered if it is deemed medically necessary," said the insurance company in a statement to Fox 40.
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Dendy has since appealed, but he does not know how many options he has left if the insurer continues to deny coverage or how much time he has left to wait.
"Without drugs, I will die a slow death," he told Fox 40.
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