A few years ago I was paid a great compliment by a retired Southern lawyer. He said that I was a "lead Mule". If you are not from the south or Farm country, you probably won't relate to that- but, I mention it because not only 1 but 2 Insurance companies refused to pay for John's canned nutritional supplies at 1st. I took them on, with his Oncologist's help, and got fully reimbursed for all feeding tube nutrition. The Oncologist told the Insurers that John would starve to death without this nutrition- it was not a food suppliment-but his only means of nutrition. John Hancock Ins was the 1st company and after they dropped him, and the 2nd one was a state run program [with premiums of $900 + a month].It took mule headed persistance on my part and the Oncologist part, but we got it covered. So don't give up. Amy in the Ozarks