The cost of fighting cancer: there is help available

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The cost of fighting cancer: there is help available

Posted Jan 9th 2007 12:30PM by Kristina Collins
Filed under: Drug, All Cancers

The cost of drugs to treat cancer can be very expensive. If you do not have good medical insurance it could prove disastrous for you and your family.

I read an article in Cure Magazine last night called Help for Patients. In this article it provided information on assistance programs. It also mentioned that many patient assistance programs will require proof of income, social security income, interest and retirement to prove financial burden and to meet income requirements of the programs.

Patients interested in enrolling in an assistance program can start by doing some research on the organizations listed below:

Amgen Reimbursement Connection: 800-272-9376 www.amgen.com/patients/assistance.html
Bristol-Myers Squibb Patient Assistance Foundation: 800-736-0003 www.bmspaf.org
CancerCare: 800-813-4673 www.cancercare.org
GlaxoSmithKline's Commitment to Access: 866-865-6491 www.commitmenttoaccess.gsk.com
Genentech's Single Point of Contact: 888-249-4918 www.spoconline.com
Lilly Cares: 800-545-9662 www.lillycares.com
Partnership in Prescription Assistance: 888-477-2669 www.pparx.org
Patient Advocate Foundation: 866-512-3861 www.copays.org
Pfizer's FirstRESOURCE: 877-744-5675 www.pfizerhelpfulanswers.com
RxAssist and Rx Outreach Patient Assistance Programs: www.rxassist.org
RxHope: 877-979-4673 www.rxhope.com
Sanofi-Aventis's PACT plus: 800-996-6626
Schering-Plough's Commitment to Care Program: 800-51-7157 www.schering-plough.com
Together Rx Access: 800-444-4106 www.togetherrxaccess.com

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Reader Comments

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1. The Leukemia & Lymphoma society also offers some assistance to patients. For example, you can get some reimbursement for mileage to treatments/doctor's appointments and for drug costs.

Patient Financial Aid Page from LLS
http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/all_page?item_id=4603

Resources on Dealing with the Financial Side of Cancer
http://www.leukemia-lymphoma.org/all_page?item_id=4599

Posted at 2:50PM on Jan 9th 2007 by CM

2. Thanks for these resources. It's disgraceful that in the most advanced nation on earth there are so many people driven to poverty by medical expenses.
Regards,
Richard Day Gore

Posted at 10:37AM on Jan 10th 2007 by richard day gore



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