Medical Expense Assistance | American Kidney Fund
Through the Health Insurance Premium Program (HIPP), the American Kidney Fund pays Part B Medicare, Medigap, commercial, and COBRA premiums for dialysis patients who have insufficient income and savings. These premium payments allow patients to continue their health insurance coverage, enabling access to physician care and medical treatment. The Safety Net Program provides small grants to dialysis and kidney transplant patients to help with treatment-related expenses, such as transportation costs to reach dialysis; over-the-counter medicines, medication co-payments, kidney donor expenses and other necessities such as dentures. Nutritional products, and durable medical supplies. The American Kidney Fund has contracted with mail order pharmacies to provide medications and supplies at discount prices, thereby increasing the purchasing power of patients’ grants Disaster relief assistance when catastrophic events strike dialysis patients’ communities. This program provides funds to help patients replace medications, food and household items and pay for other necessities lost because of disasters such as flooding, hurricanes, etc. The cost of dialysis while traveling. Patients or facilities may be reimbursed for the 20% of treatment costs not covered by Medicare or any other source for emergency transient dialysis. Grants are limited to travel necessitated by death or serious illness in the family or for the purpose of kidney transplant workup only.
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Physical Address
11921 Rockville Pike, Suite 300, Rockville, MD 20852
Hours
Mon-Thu 8:30am-5pm; Fri 9am-3pm.
Voice
Voice
Fax
(301) 881-0098
Application process
Call the Patient Services department at 800-638-8299 for assistance and information or visit website at www.kidneyfund.org/financial-assistance.
Fee
None.
Eligibility
HIPP is a “last resort” source of assistance to dialysis patients. It is restricted to patients who have no means of paying health insurance premiums and who would forego coverage without the benefit of HIPP. To qualify for a Safety Net Grant from the American Kidney Fund: • The patient must be a dialysis patient or a kidney transplant recipient. Transplant patients may be no more than five years post-transplant. • The patient must not be covered for the requested expense by other program or insurance. Financial assistance by the American Kidney Fund is considered "last resort" funding. • Safety Net Grants are not provided for hospital bills, medical bills, physician’s services, dialysis treatment costs or transplantation surgery. These expenses are usually covered by health insurance and/or governmental programs. • The patient must demonstrate financial need on the patient application. Financial need will be assessed based on numerous factors including household income, reasonable expenses and liquid assets.
Languages
Spanish.
Service area
Wyandot County, Ohio
Marion County, Ohio
Athens County, Ohio
Monroe County, Ohio
Knox County, Ohio
Licking County, Ohio
Noble County, Ohio
Crawford County, Ohio
Washington County, Ohio
Coshocton County, Ohio
Pickaway County, Ohio
Guernsey County, Ohio
Agency info
American Kidney Fund
Provides direct financial assistance to kidney patients, and is a leader in providing education to those with and at risk for kidney disease. Our programs address all stages of kidney health, including kidney disease awareness and prevention; community outreach to individuals at high risk for kidney disease; and treatment-related support for those requiring renal dialysis or transplantation.