Financial assistance links

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Discoclub
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Financial assistance links

Postby Discoclub » Sun Jul 22, 2007 4:16 pm

I found this listing of links to financial assistance to be informative.

They were posted by another poster onanother board, but I thought someone here may find it helpful as well.
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There are several steps that you can take to seek financial assistance for cancer healthcare. First you should contact your hospital or cancer clinic and ask for a medical social worker. A medical social worker can help pinpoint funding for you. If that is not a possibility, than contact the local American Cancer Society for assistance:

ACS: Financial and Legal Matters
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/MIT/mit_3 ... tearea=MIT

Medical Insurance and Financial Assistance for the Cancer Patient
http://tinyurl.com/6kxhl

You should also be aware that there are over 300 hospitals located in the US that were built with federal funding. These facilities are obligated to offer free or low cost healthcare to those unable to pay. The program is called Hill Burton:

Hill-Burton Free and Reduced Cost Health Care
http://www.hrsa.gov/hillburton/

List of Hill-Burton facilities by state:
http://www.hrsa.gov/hillburton/hillburtonfacilities.htm

And, finally, if you are still having problems try to contact CancerCare which offers free online counseling for problems like this:

Cancer Care
http://www.cancercare.org/

There are other federal and state programs that people without insurance may be able to utilize (such as Medicare - http://www.medicare.gov/ )

Good luck! and hang in there. Even when you have insurance it isn't easy!!

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Postby bossan » Mon Jul 23, 2007 8:26 am

Nice stuff Ed. I'll pass the links around as they should useful to some.

Funy thing, my wife was trying to think of positive things, things to be thankful for since the diagnosis. We have many, but she pointed out that t have not had the fnancil house fall down, even though I've been dealing with it over 3 year.

CHEERS!


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