Financial Support Programs Directory

American Cancer Society

The American Cancer Society has programs and services to help patients with cancer and their loved ones understand cancer, manage their lives through treatment and recovery, and identify resources for patients who need financial assistance.

American Childhood Cancer Organization

The American Childhood Cancer Organization provides programs, information, and awareness for children and adolescents with cancer and their families, to advocate for their needs, and to support research so every child survives and leads a long and healthy life.

The Assistance Fund

The Assistance Fund (TAF) is an independent charitable patient assistance foundation that helps patients and families facing high medical out-of-pocket costs by providing financial assistance for their copayments, coinsurance, deductibles, and other health-related expenses. TAF currently manages more than 30 funds—each of which covers the FDA-approved medications that treat a specific disease, such as melanoma, breast cancer, head and neck cancer, lung cancer, and others, depending on funds available. Since its founding in 2009, TAF has helped more than 43,000 adults and children access the medicines they need to stay healthy or manage a chronic condition.

Be The Match Patient Assistance Programs

These programs provide financial assistance for patients with multiple myeloma or lymphoma

These programs help patients needing an unrelated donor for a bone marrow or cord blood transplant. The funds pay for costs (including copays) not covered by insurance that may accumulate while searching for a donor and for 12 months after a transplant. Financial aid recipients must meet certain financial eligibility criteria.

The Bone Marrow Foundation

This foundation provides financial assistance for patients with leukemia, lymphoma, or multiple myeloma

This foundation offers 2 financial assistance programs for patients in need of a bone marrow transplant. The Lifeline Fund covers costs associated with a transplant, including copays, medical treatment, and a variety of living and travel expenses, and the Scholarship Fund assists students who have undergone a transplant, are enrolled or enrolling in a primary, secondary, or college-level school, and whose annual household income is less than $55,000. Funding helps cover tuition, supplies, and educational homebound equipment.

CancerCare

CancerCare is a national nonprofit organization that provides free professional support services to patients with cancer and their caregivers. CancerCare’s financial assistance programs provide limited financial assistance for cancer-related costs. The CancerCare Co-Payment Assistance Foundation helps patients afford insurance copayments for chemotherapy and targeted treatments.

CancerCare Co-Payment Assistance Foundation

This foundation provides financial assistance for patients with breast, brain, lung, multiple myeloma, pancreatic, or thyroid cancer

The CancerCare Co-Payment Assistance Foundation helps with insurance copayments to cover the cost of chemotherapy and targeted drugs associated with various cancers. Eligible patients must be undergoing chemotherapy or be prescribed a targeted drug; be covered by private insurance, by an employer health plan, or by Medicare Part B, C, or D; and have an adjusted gross income of up to 4 times the federal poverty level.

Cancer Financial Assistance Coalition

The Cancer Financial Assistance Coalition is a group of national organizations that provide financial help to patients with cancer. The Cancer Financial Assistance Coalition provides a searchable database of financial resources available to patients in need.

Cancer Support Community

The Cancer Support Community is an international nonprofit organization that is dedicated to providing social and emotional support, education, and hope to individuals affected by cancer. The Cancer Support Community offers a menu of personalized services and education. These support services are available through a network of professionally led, community-based centers, hospitals, community oncology practices, and online resources.

Emilio Nares Foundation

Through its numerous, dependable services, the Emilio Nares Foundation helps direct families through their child’s journey with cancer, and supports each child’s recovery. Services offered by the Emilio Nares Foundation include financial aid, access to information and trained staff members in the resource center, and the foundation’s flagship program, Ride With Emilio, which offers underprivileged children and their parents transportation assistance in getting to and from the hospital for cancer-related appointments.

Good Days

This foundation provides financial assistance for patients with breast, colorectal, leukemia, liver, lung, lymphoma, melanoma, multiple myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes, pancreatic, or thyroid cancer

Good Days provides assistance to underinsured patients who are diagnosed with chronic or life-altering diseases (including cancer) so that they get access to the medications they need.

Headstrong Foundation

This foundation provides financial assistance for patients with leukemia, lymphoma, or multiple myeloma

Patients who are experiencing financial hardship and are undergoing treatment for leukemia at the time of application are eligible to receive a grant for up to $750, to help offset living expenses, and travel-related expenses due to disease and/or medical expenses.

HealthWell Foundation

This foundation provides financial assistance for patients with NETs, head and neck, or lung cancer, and for cancer-related medication side effects

The HealthWell Foundation is an independent, nonprofit organization that provides financial assistance to eligible individuals to cover coinsurance, copayments, healthcare premiums, and deductibles for certain medications and therapies.

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

This foundation provides financial assistance for patients with leukemia, lymphoma, multiple myeloma, or myelodysplastic syndromes

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s patient financial support programs provide limited financial assistance (including financial support toward treatment-related copayments, insurance premium costs, and travel expenses) to patients with significant financial need who are diagnosed with a blood cancer, such as leukemia, lymphoma, or multiple myeloma.

National Children’s Cancer Society

The National Children’s Cancer Society seeks to improve the quality of life for children with cancer, their families, and survivors by providing financial assistance, advocacy, support services, and education.

National Foundation for Transplants

The National Foundation for Transplants provides fundraising assistance for patients who need organ and/or tissue transplants, including bone marrow and stem-cell transplants.

National Organization for Rare Disorders

The National Organization for Rare Disorders is dedicated to helping patients with rare diseases and assisting the organizations that serve them. The organization offers financial assistance programs that provide medication, financial assistance with insurance premiums and copays, diagnostic testing assistance, and travel assistance for clinical trials or consultation with disease specialists.

NeedyMeds

NeedyMeds, a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, is an information resource on available patient assistance programs that help individuals who cannot afford medications or other healthcare costs.

Partnership for Prescription Assistance

The Partnership for Prescription Assistance helps qualifying patients without prescription drug coverage get the medication they need by connecting them to patient assistance programs. This organization offers access to more than 475 public and private patient support programs, including 200 financial support programs from biopharmaceutical companies.

Patient Access Network Foundation

This foundation provides advocacy and financial assistance for patients with breast, colorectal, kidney, leukemia, lung, lymphoma, melanoma, multiple myeloma, myelofibrosis, NETs, pancreatic, polycythemia vera, prostate, skin, or thyroid cancer, and for cancer-related medication side effects

The Patient Access Network Foundation provides advocacy and financial support for out-of-pocket costs associated with a wide range of medications to treat a number of chronic, rare, or life-threatening conditions, including cancer.

Patient Advocate Foundation Co-Pay Relief Program

This foundation provides financial assistance for patients with breast, bladder, cervical, colorectal, kidney, gastric, multiple myeloma, myelodysplastic syndromes, ovarian, prostate, or lung cancer

The Patient Advocate Foundation Co-Pay Relief Program provides direct financial support to financially and medically eligible patients, including Medicare Part D beneficiaries. These may include out-of-pocket costs associated with healthcare insurance copayments, coinsurance, and deductibles.

Patient Services, Inc

This organization provides financial assistance for patients with leukemia, multiple myeloma, GIST, or kidney cancer

Patient Services, Inc is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing health insurance premium assistance, pharmacy copayment assistance, and copayment waiver assistance for patients with chronic illnesses, including several types of cancer.

RxAssist

RxAssist, through their online Patient Assistance Program Center, provides a comprehensive database of patient assistance programs offered by drug companies, as well as other tools and resources to manage patients’ medication costs.

RxHope

RxHope is a web-based patient assistance resource that helps patients obtain free or low-cost prescription medications. RxHope has program descriptions and downloadable applications for prescription drugs assistance programs for specific medications.

BenefitsCheckUp (National Council on Aging)

BenefitsCheckUp helps individuals aged >55 years find support programs that may cover some of their prescription drug costs and other healthcare expenses.

Compassionate Allowances (Social Security Administration)

Social Security provides benefits to patients with serious medical conditions that meet disability standards. Com-passionate Allowances is a means for Social Security to quickly identify medical conditions that qualify for benefits under the Listing of Impairments based on minimal objective medical information and target them for allowances.

Extra Help (Social Security Administration)

Extra Help is a Social Security program that provides financial assistance to eligible Medicare beneficiaries with their Medicare prescription drug plan costs, such as monthly premiums, annual deductibles, and prescription copays. Extra Help is estimated to be worth about $4,000 annually. To be eligible for Extra Help, an individual must receive Medicare, have limited resources and income, and reside in 1 of the 50 states or in the District of Columbia.

Genetic and Rare Diseases Information Center (Office of Rare Diseases Research, National Institutes of Health)

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) Office of Rare Dis-eases Research maintains an online resource that provides links to several support services, including support and advocacy organizations, financial aid for medical treatment, travel and lodging assistance, and fee-for-service ambulance services.

Hill-Burton Free and Reduced-Cost Health Care (Health Resources & Services Administration)

As mandated by the Hill-Burton Act, about 140 healthcare facilities nationwide provide free or reduced-cost care for patients who are unable to pay and to make their services available to all persons residing in the facility’s area. Patients are eligible to apply for Hill-Burton free care if their income is at or below the current Health & Human Services (HHS) Poverty Guidelines, and for reduced-cost care if their income is ≤2 times the HHS Poverty Guidelines.

National Cancer Institute: Organizations That Offer Support Services

The NIH maintains a database of government agencies and national organizations that provide financial assistance to patients with cancer and their families. In addition, it provides information about patient assistance programs.

National Council on Patient Information and Education: Understanding Prescription Assistance Programs

The National Council on Patient Information and Education is a nonprofit multistakeholder coalition that is involved in communicating information on prescription assistance programs to consumers and healthcare professionals.