Denied

Jeffrey Nordella grew up in near poverty, yet he succeeded in earning a medical degree from the UCLA School of Medicine. He married his soulmate, had three beautiful children, and spent each day at his family and urgent care clinic doing what doctors are supposed to do and what he loved: caring for people.

He never thought that advocating for his patients would make him the target of a “for profit” insurance company whose subscribers comprised nearly 60 percent of his practice.

Thus began the...