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Cost of Denial , the series created by NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Llamas, looks at what happens to families when insurance companies deny their claims

In PEOPLE's early look at Thursday's episode, one family struggles to get medication to help their teen son with his near-constant seizures

Llamas tells PEOPLE the series can show people what to do if they're denied: "I'm telling these stories to try to help people that are in need,” he says

Tom Llamas saw first-hand the challenges of navigating the healthcare industry when the NBC Nightly News anchor and his family moved to a New York suburb and had to find new doctors for his family .

“It was very difficult to find doctors for our children, doctors that would take new patients, doctors that would take me and my

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