What is 'denial of care'?

What is 'denial of care'?

Denial of care happens in an instance where you go to your doctor and you need a referral to a specialist and he says no, or you need a lung transplant or a bone marrow transplant, or you need a garden variety surgery and your managed care organization, your company that you've never seen, and the people you've never seen, deny you. They say that you don't get the care your doctor has requested for you. That's denial of care.