Aetna settles lawsuit alleging wrongful denial of cancer claims

Aetna Inc. has agreed to pay up to $3.4 million to settle a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging it wrongly refused to cover patients' cancer treatment, Becker’s Payer Issues reports, citing Bloomberg Law. The settlement allows 142 patients who were denied proton beam therapy treatment between June 2017 and October 2020 to receive cash payments of up to $24,000.