Category: Insurance
1. Coping with Cancer Uninsured
Facing a cancer diagnosis without health insurance can be stressful. Feeling uncertain and anxious is very common, but this should not keep (1)…
Learn the pitfalls of facing cancer with no insurance, and how cancer insurance from Guardian can lessen financial risk and help you focus on recovery.(2)…
Learn about government programs to help people without insurance through their jobs.(3)…
How to Pay for Cancer Treatment Without Health Insurance
You might already know that cancer care is not inexpensive, but did you know the average cost of cancer treatment is about $150,000?(4)…
Aflac Cancer Insurance Can Help Pay for Your Cancer Treatment We hope you never find yourself in a position where you have cancer and no form of supplemental (5)…
Ways to find health care assistance programs in your area: · Contact a nearby nonprofit cancer organization or hospital and ask for a patient services (6)…
2. How To Get Cancer Treatment Without Health Insurance
Medicaid is free health insurance for specific families that meet the low-income guidelines established by their state. Cancer patients without (7)…
If you don’t have health insurance, talk to the social worker or patient financial counselor at your hospital or cancer center.(8)…
Where do I go if I am uninsured or have a low income? – Texas …
Access to Cancer Care for Low-Income and Uninsured Patients helps low-income or uninsured Texans seeking free or low-cost cancer screening or treatment.(9)…
Find more information about financial assistance for cancer patients today. costs for the uninsured (patients with no source of third-party insurance (10)…
Help for Low-Income and Uninsured Patients – Johns Hopkins …
of cancer is daunting enough, but for many low-income patients, who are uninsured or underinsured, learning the cost of treatment, (11)…
In just my first cycle of chemotherapy in January 2017, back to back days of a few hours of outpatient treatment, the bill came in at $62,155.(12)…
Oncology social workers, case managers, doctors, and oncology nurses can help to receive treatment or diagnosis, or who may live in rural areas without (13)…
3. The Affordable Care Act and Cancer
You may buy insurance from the health insurance marketplace. Another name is the “insurance exchange.” It helps people and small businesses get insurance. · You (14)…
When compared to people without health insurance coverage, more likely to report that they are no longer receiving cancer treatment.26.(15)…
No health insurance? How to follow-up after a skin cancer …
2 ways to get medical care without health insurance · Go to a low-cost or free clinic: You can find these clinics throughout the United States. The following (16)…
20 days without treatment of metastatic cancer is no way to run a nation’s health care. I consider myself one of the lucky ones. I may have (17)…
by SB Dusetzina · 2015 · Cited by 46 — Uninsured patients faced potential prices for chemotherapy that were 2–43 times to Medicare were within the expected range for use in cancer treatment.(18)…
Inequality of Care and Cancer Survival – AMA Journal of Ethics
by VR Grann · 2007 · Cited by 2 — Almost all of the people with either no health coverage or inadequate health Effect of screening and adjuvant therapy on mortality from breast cancer.(19)…
Cancer Services – New York State Department of Health. to enroll in the NYS Medicaid Cancer Treatment Program to receive full Medicaid coverage for the (20)…
4. How to Pay for Cancer Treatment When You’re Broke
Johnson Hospital Oncology Service in Houston, which treats one of the largest uninsured populations in the country. Rieber has seen it all. [ (21)…
In the US, you will get minimal treatment if it is proven you are unable to pay for services. You will be comforted at best and for an extreme price tag, but (22)…
Financial Assistance | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
If you do not have health insurance or are worried that your health insurance Managing the cost of your cancer treatment can be stressful and difficult.(23)…
5. Financial Assistance at Moffitt
its patients is the provision of financial assistance to qualifying patients who are unable to pay for their care due to limited or no insurance coverage.(24)…
recommended by their doctor, leaving them effectively uninsured for much of the cost of their cancer treatment . A 2006 poll conducted by USA Today, (25)…
Americans Can’t Keep Up with High Cost of Cancer Treatment
Cancer treatment costs are keeping America’s uninsured, poor and blue-collar workers from life-saving therapies. Asbestos.com examines the (26)…
No coverage limits: Health insurance companies cannot put a dollar limit on how much they’ll spend on you each year or over your lifetime to cover essential (27)…
Free Cancer Screening Guidelines: Health Reform – WebMD
WebMD explains the guidelines for free cancer screening tests under the Check with your insurance company to find out your coverage.(28)…
Most Cancer Treatment Centers of America® (CTCA) facilities also work with Medicare and Medicare Part C (Medicare Advantage HMOs and PPOs) and, in some cases, (29)…
Researchers found that uninsured cancer patients experience worse do not always have the funds for necessary, life-saving treatments.(30)…
Insurance and billing | Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
Patient Financial Services at Seattle Cancer Care Alliance (SCCA) can help you manage the financial side of your cancer treatment.(31)…
The SWOG Cancer Research Network study is the first to examine whether treatment effects from randomized cancer clinical trials with positive (32)…
Cancer State Aid Program
physicians to provide cancer treatment to uninsured and under-insured, low-income cancer patients. This treatment program is available to eligible Georgians (33)…
Asking your health insurance company about your benefits and arranging for a payment plan can help you manage the costs of cancer treatment.(34)…
The individual must: Be uninsured or have no credible health insurance; Be under age 65; Be a U.S. citizen or qualified non-citizen; Be a Pennsylvania (35)…
Financial Assistance – The National Pancreas Foundation
The National Pancreas Foundation does not provide routine medical assistance or funds for treatment. Health insurance usually pays at least part of your (36)…
The cost of treating cancer can be devastating for the uninsured. Delawareans without health insurance often don’t get regular mammograms, prostate cancer (37)…
Bureau of Tobacco Free Florida – Cancer Program Care Access Program makes affordable health coverage available to uninsured Floridians.(38)…
Excerpt Links
(1). Coping with Cancer Uninsured
(2). The Risks of Facing Cancer Without Insurance | Guardian
(3). Government-funded Programs: When You Can’t Get Health …
(4). How to Pay for Cancer Treatment Without Health Insurance
(5). Cancer Treatment Without Insurance | Aflac
(6). Health Care Assistance for Uninsured | Livestrong
(7). How To Get Cancer Treatment Without Health Insurance
(8). Help for People Without Health Insurance – Breast Cancer.org
(9). Where do I go if I am uninsured or have a low income? – Texas …
(10). Uncompensated Care – MD Anderson
(11). Help for Low-Income and Uninsured Patients – Johns Hopkins …
(12). What having cancer and no insurance taught me about our …
(13). Financial Resources | Cancer.Net
(14). The Affordable Care Act and Cancer
(15). Medicaid: Ensuring Access to Affordable Health Care …
(16). No health insurance? How to follow-up after a skin cancer …
(17). No Insurance. No Cancer Treatment. – Cure Today
(18). For Uninsured Cancer Patients, Outpatient Charges Can Be …
(19). Inequality of Care and Cancer Survival – AMA Journal of Ethics
(20). New York State Cancer Services Program
(21). How to Pay for Cancer Treatment When You’re Broke
(22). If someone without insurance is diagnosed with cancer, how …
(23). Financial Assistance | Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
(24). Financial Assistance at Moffitt
(25). Cancer Patients Confront Holes in the Health Insurance System
(26). Americans Can’t Keep Up with High Cost of Cancer Treatment
(27). Cancer Treatment – Maryland Health Connection
(28). Free Cancer Screening Guidelines: Health Reform – WebMD
(29). Insurance Plans & Payment Options for Cancer Treatment
(30). Cancer Patient Outcomes Significantly Worse for the Uninsured
(31). Insurance and billing | Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
(32). Cancer patients without insurance or with Medicaid don’t get …
(33). Cancer State Aid Program
(34). Paying for Cancer Treatment | CDC
(35). Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment – PA …
(36). Financial Assistance – The National Pancreas Foundation
(37). DPH: Cancer Treatment Program – Delaware Health and Social
(38). Resources | Florida Department of Health