Patient Financial Assistance Funds

Patient Financial Assistance Funds is sponsored by PAN Foundation. The PAN Foundation provides financial assistance to underinsured people with life-threatening, chronic, and rare diseases to help pay for medication copay costs, health insurance premiums, and transportation for a 12-month period.

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The Texas resident has been living with multiple myeloma for nearly a decade, so she sees each day as a gift. Paying for her treatments over the last ten years has been a challenge, punctuated by searches for charitable grant support to afford her medical care. As a Medicare beneficiary, Angela is one of the millions of people living in the U.S. with no limit on her out-of-pocket prescription costs.

She is still working to pay off thousands of dollars of debt that she incurred to continue her treatment after one grant ran out of funding. Through it all, she still considers every dollar of support and every day a blessing, especially when she is able to video chat with her grandchildren and “grand dog” in London.

Last year, Angela received financial aid through a COVID-19 support fund from the Patient Advocate Foundation , which helped her buy food and other essentials while she was quarantining at home. “I needed every means of financial assistance to pay my bills and household expenses,” she said. “The [Patient Advocate Foundation] grant has taken extra added stress off of me.

” Angela’s experience living with a chronic illness on Medicare is unfortunately all too common. The Patient Advocate Foundation’s mission is to help people like Angela, which is why we are proud to offer financial assistance for nearly 70 diagnoses. We also advocate for Congress to reform Medicare to help the millions of people who are priced out of their prescriptions by out-of-pocket costs.

Our grassroots campaigns offer patients and supporters a way to directly appeal to their representatives for a cap on out-of-pocket costs. Find a grant with the Patient Advocate Foundation The Patient Advocate Foundation provides patient assistance grants for nearly 70 diagnoses, including many cancers, and chronic and rare diseases. Our website helps you find out whether you qualify for any of these funds in minutes.

These grants often cover 100 percent of your out-of-pocket prescription medication costs, including deductibles, co-pays, and coinsurance. We cover products that are FDA-approved or listed in official compendia or evidence-based guidelines for each disease. This includes brand and generic medications.

Eligible patients can also receive transportation assistance to cover travel expenses to their doctor’s offices and pharmacy. To apply, patients—or caregivers or providers applying on their behalf—complete a paperless application, get instant approval, and in most cases, can begin using their grant immediately. You can apply online in minutes and track your grant in our online portals.

Get started today at totalassist. org . Get funding alerts through the wait list We do our best to keep our funds open all year round.

If the fund you would like to apply for is closed, we recommend signing up for the wait list. Our wait list system allows prospective grantees to get the first chance to apply for assistance when funding becomes available. Our website also tracks available funding at other charitable organizations, so even if our fund is closed, you’ll be able to quickly see whether help is available somewhere else.

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