Medicaid refuses to pay for breast cancer treatments for Charleston man

CHARLESTON - Raymond Johnson is one of the roughly 1 percent of men who will get breast cancer.

He's only 26 and already undergoing chemotherapy at Roper Saint Francis. Each treatment costs around $10,000 and he needs several more. Johnson makes a living laying tile, but doesn't have health insurance through his job, so a patient advocate helped him apply for a Medicaid program that pays for breast cancer treatments.

But Johnson was denied because he is not a woman.

MidlandsConnect.com has more on Johnson's story here.