New Law Helps Colorado Children With Need Of Lifesaving Formula
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DENVER (CBS4) - Health insurance companies in Colorado are now required to cover a lifesaving formula.
Gov. John Hickenlooper on Wednesday signed a law that will help children with a rare protein allergy. The specialized formula is one of the only things that make it not painful for the children to eat, but it costs up to $5,000 a year.
Before now, insurance companies didn't cover it.
"We get to take something that has been really hard for our family and we turn it into something that is going to help Colorado's sick children for years and years and decades on end," mother Janie Dullard said. "It's very exciting."
About 200 children in Colorado have the rare protein allergy.
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