Financial Assistance

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Summary

Health care can be costly. If you have health insurance, it usually pays at least part of your medical costs. If you don't have insurance or need help with costs that aren't covered, financial assistance might be available. Certain government programs and nonprofit organizations can help. You can also discuss concerns about paying your medical bills with your health care provider, social worker or the business office of your clinic or hospital.

Start Here

• Financial Assistance Information (National Human Genome Research Institute)

Specifics

• Benefits for People with Disabilities (Social Security Administration)
• Compassionate Allowances (Social Security Administration)
• Hill-Burton Free and Reduced Cost Health Care (Health Resources and Services Administration) - PDF
• NORD's Patient Assistance Programs (National Organization for Rare Disorders)
• Partnership for Prescription Assistance (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America) - Search engine of prescription medicine assistance programs
• Paying for Complementary Health Approaches (National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health) Also in Spanish
• Prescription Drug Assistance Programs (American Cancer Society)
• RxHope: Patient Assistance Information (Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America)

Clinical Trials

• ClinicalTrials.gov: Medical Assistance (National Institutes of Health)

Journal Articles References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)

• Article: Two-Year Stability and Change in Access to and Reasons for...
• Article: Effect of charted mental illness on reperfusion therapy in hospitalized...
• Article: Coordinating Between Medical Professions' Tasks to Optimize Sub-Saharan Health Systems:...
• Financial Assistance -- see more articles

Find an Expert

• HRSA: Find a Health Center (Health Resources and Services Administration)

Children

• Benefits for Children with Disabilities (Social Security Administration) Also in Spanish
• Financial Management during Crisis (For Parents) (Nemours Foundation) Also in Spanish

Teenagers

• Finding Low-Cost Medical Care (For Teens) (Nemours Foundation)

Women

• WISEWOMAN: Frequently Asked Questions (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Patient Handouts

• 8 ways to cut health care costs (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish