Cancer Legal and Financial Support
Legal
Cancer Legal Resource Center
The CLRC provides free information and resources on cancer-related legal issues to cancer survivors, caregivers, health care professionals, employers, and others coping with cancer.
Insurance
National Cancer Institute: Clinical Trials and Insurance
This site provides comprehensive advice on how patients can persuade their insurance companies to fund part or all of the cost of clinical trials.
HealthCare.gov
The “Find Insurance Options” feature found on this site will help you find the health insurance best suited to your needs, whether it's private insurance for individuals, families, and small businesses, or public programs that may work for you. It was created to help consumers under the health insurance reform law, the Affordable Care Act.
A.M. Best Company
Find insurance company ratings.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality(U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
Find the publication "Choosing and Using a Health Plan."
America's Health Insurance Plans
National directory of health insurance plans and information on types of coverage.
Association of Community Cancer Centers
Find the publication "Cancer Treatments Your Insurance Should Cover."
Medicare(U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
Information on the Medicare health insurance program, including Medicare prescription drug plans.
National Association of Insurance Commissioners
Find your state insurance commissioner.
Patient Advocate Foundation
Offers legal and advocacy help when disputing insurance claim denials, as well as financial assistance information.
Paying for Treatment
Patient Advocate Foundation (PAF)
The PAF provides patients with arbitration, mediation, and negotiation to settle issues with access to care, medical debt, and job retention related to their illness. The PAF provides assistance in 15 different areas, ranging from access to medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and surgery, to assistance for uninsured or underinsured individuals.
National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS): Financial Assistance
The NCCS operates this website, which provides a broad array of services for the cancer patient. One of the services provided concerns paying for care. This information can be read online or downloaded as a PDF. Other services include an extensive list of services provided to cancer patients and useful publications including "Working It Out: Your Employment Rights as a Cancer Survivor," "What Cancer Survivors Need to Know About Health Insurance." and "A Cancer Survivor's Almanac: Charting Your Journey."
Cancer.Net: Financial Resources
The Cancer.Net Financial Resources program provides the cancer patient access to dozens of organizations providing financial assistance for a large number of treatment-related costs, such as travel, insurance, home care, insurance premiums, and co-pays, and so on.
The Raymond Wentz Foundation
The Raymond Wentz Foundation makes unrestricted cash grants to patients of all ages across the state of Colorado. Since 2002, the foundation has granted over $700,000 to more than 1,000 patients. We offer support to cancer patients with any type of cancer diagnosis in financial need. Grant recipients have had cancers ranging from breast, colon, pancreas, lung, and brain to leukemia and lymphoma.
Verna’s Purse (financial assistance for fertility storage)
Verna’s Purse, a program administered by ReproTech, Ltd., strives to make fertility preservation services available to all individuals who are facing fertility threatening treatment by offering a generous financial assistance program to patients faced with economic challenges.
American Association of Retired Persons (AARP)
Information on health issues, Medicare and health insurance programs for people over 50.
American Cancer Society - Taking Charge of Money Matters workshop
This site provides a financial workshop for people living with cancer.
Medicaid
Find your state's Medicaid toll-free hotline.
Health Care Resources dot Net
Health Care Tips including Breast Cancer, Insurance, Symptoms and More.
Financing Issues-Medical Assistance
Breast Cancer Network of Strength
Financial assistance for wigs, prostheses and mastectomy bras.
Cancer Care
Financial assistance for diagnostic work-ups, as well as information on drug assistance programs. Provides information about specific prescription drug assistance programs.
See alsoTransportation Assistance.
NeedyMeds.com
Drug assistance program information.
Partnership for Prescription Assistance
Drug assistance program information.
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
Directory of drug manufacturers' assistance programs.
Social Security Administration
Find your local social security office.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure® and CancerCare's Linking A.R.M.S.(TM)
Financial assistance for some medications and medical supplies.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure® and Patient Advocate Foundation’s Co-Pay Relief (CPR) Program
Provides insurance co-payment assistance.
State Cancer Legislative Database Program
This site lists those states that have legislation requiring coverage for prophylactic mastectomy.
Financing Issues-Transportation Assistance
Air Charity Network
Air travel assistance for people living with cancer and their caregivers.
American Cancer Society - Road to Recovery
Local transportation assistance.
CancerCare
Financial assistance for transportation to and from treatment. Childcare when a parent is having tests or treatment.
Corporate Angel Network
Air travel assistance for people living with cancer.
Lifeline Pilots
Air travel assistance for people living with cancer and their caregivers.
Mercy Medical Airlift
Air travel assistance for people living with cancer and their caregivers.
National Patient Air Travel HELPLINE
Air travel assistance for people living with cancer and their caregivers.
Raquel's Wings for Life
Air travel assistance for people living with cancer and their caregivers.
Financing Issues - Lodging Assistance
American Cancer Society’s Hope Lodges
Provide lodging for families during cancer treatments.
Financing Issues – Fundraising
GiveForward
Raise money for any cause. At GiveForward we’re passionate about empowering people to help those in need. We provide easy to use fundraising pages so you can raise money for the people and causes that need it most.
