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Personalized Help - Direct Patient Services

Patient Advocate Foundation offers patients assistance with specific issues they are facing with their insurer, employer and/or creditor regarding insurance, job retention and/or debt crisis matters relative to their diagnosis of life threatening or debilitating diseases. Our professional case managers and attorneys specialize in mediation, negotiation and arbitration, and they advocate on behalf of patients experiencing the following issues:

Access To Care

• Preauthorization
• Coding and Billing
• Insurance Appeals Process
• Expedited Appeals Process
• Access to Pharmaceutical Agents
• Access to Medical Devices
• Access to Surgical Procedures
• Expedited applications for Social Security Disability, Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIPS, and other social programs

Job Retention

• Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) qualifications
• Disability accommodations
• Communication with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and State Fair Employment Practices Agencies (FEPA)
• Denial of Income
• Denial of Health Benefits

Debt Crisis

• Housing
• Utilities
• Food
• Transportation to Medical Treatment
• Child Care

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The PAF Co-Pay Relief Program provides financial assistance to patients who meet certain qualifications to help them pay for the prescriptions and/or treatments they need. This assistance helps insured patients who have chronic, life threatening and/or debilitating illnesses pay the out-of-pocket co-pays and deductibles associated with their insurance plans.

Co-Pay Relief Program Receives OIG Advisory Opinion Ruling
Patient Advocate Foundation is pleased to announce the receipt of an Office of the Inspector General Advisory Opinion Ruling in support of the Patient Advocate Foundation Co-Pay Relief Program on October 29, 2004. The Advisory Opinion approved 27 chronic, life threatening or debilitating disease silos for assistance through PAF’s Co-Pay Relief Program.

The opinion allows the PAF Co-Pay Relief Program to provide direct financial support to medically and financially qualified patients. Please contact our program for answers to your eligibility questions.

Click here to go to the Co-Pay Relief Program website.

Note: If you are in need of co-pay assistance and are diagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis, Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma or receiving therapies for oncology cytoprotection, you can contact the Patient Access Network Foundation toll free at (866) 316-7263.