Patient Advocacy
Patient Advocacy is available to help improve or maintain a high quality of health care for the patients. Patient advocacy organizations are often non-profit and focus on one aspect of health care or a specific disease. Affordable Health Care Alliance and their associates thinks it’s vitally important you know about some of the valuable patient advocacy organizations available.
Compass Professional Health Services
Compass provides the cost transparency, quality checks, and patient advocacy that unlock the power of healthcare consumerism. Compass lowers healthcare costs and increases overall satisfaction with medical care.
Patient advocacy services from Compass Professional Health Services can save you hundreds or even thousands of dollars on medical bills. By registering today, you’ll get access to experts who give you insider healthcare information you won’t get from your doctor or insurance company. Compass health experts are ready to help by phone or email.
On average, Compass members save $620 every year by avoiding overpriced medical care. Our members also avoid many stressful hours of deciphering medical bills or calling insurance companies.
Disover your free and low-cost health coverage options now that Health Care Reform has passed.
The mission of FHCE is to provide simplified public and private health insurance eligibility information in order to help more people access coverage. They help uninsured, centralizing the distribution of information and eligibility requirements, encouraging more people to enroll, thereby lowering the ranks of the uninsured. Get information on:
- Which programs you and your family qualify for through a short questionnaire
- The U.S. uninsured help line. Help with uninsured at (800) 234-1317
- Reference guide to healthcare options
- Resources and applications for health coverage in your state
The Healthcare Blue Book offers a number of free resources to help you learn how to be an informed consumer, and enable you to make good decisions for your health and pocketbook.
From this screen you may choose to learn more about how to understand and document your medical needs, how to use the Healthcare Blue Book to find a fair price, how to ask your healthcare provider about getting the best possible price or how to understand and use your insurance benefits.
The Healthcare Blue Book also offers a number of resources to help you directly save money on healthcare services, including a free pharmacy discount card and reduced fees on many standard laboratory tests.
Exposing Healthcare Prices is a social-networking portal to help consumers find the best value for routine health care services in their neighborhood. The site includes a directory of true prices for common services based on actual visits by individual consumers. The website is free and everyone is invited to participate, including the insured and under-insured, by anonymously posting prices they paid for routine health care services (such as MRIs, mammograms, x-rays, CT scans, vaccinations, office visits, dental and vision), along with their personal recommendations on the provider.
The Partnership for Prescription Assistance helps qualifying patients without prescription drug coverage get the medicines they need through the program that is right for them. Many will get their medications free or nearly free.
The Partnership for Prescription Assistance will help you find the program that’s right for you, free of charge. Remember, you will never be asked for money by a PPA Call Center representative, or on the Website.
The Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic is a not-for-profit medical practice dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of virtually every type of complex illness. Mayo Clinic staff members work together to meet your needs. You will see as many doctors, specialists and other health care professionals as needed to provide comprehensive diagnosis, understandable answers and effective treatment.
Mayo provides clinic and hospital services at its locations in Rochester, Minn.; Jacksonville, Fla.; and Phoenix and Scottsdale, Ariz. Every medical service you need is available on our campuses, and physicians devote the time you need to be fully understood and cared for.
The Mayo Clinic logo represents the three underpinnings that continue our reputation as a pioneer and innovator in medicine – patient care, medical research and academic education.
Free Clinics
A Free Clinic is a private, nonprofit, community-based organization that provides medical care at little or no charge to low-income, uninsured and underinsured persons through the use of volunteer health care professionals and partnerships with other health providers.
The following are common characteristics of Free Clinics:
COMMUNITY-BASED
No two Free Clinics are alike. They are custom-designed by communities to meet identified health care needs using the community’s unique health care assets and resources. Free Clinics are governed by volunteer Boards of Directors representing a broad cross-section of the community.
PRIVATE, NONPROFIT
Free Clinics are private, nonprofit organizations supported primarily by cash and in-kind contributions from the private sector.
VOLUNTEER-DRIVEN
Volunteerism is a central feature of Free Clinics. Free Clinic services are provided primarily or exclusively by volunteer health care professionals serving in the clinic’s own facility and/or in their own private practice setting. Lay volunteers also perform a variety of administrative and clerical tasks thus keeping overhead costs low.
TARGET LOW-INCOME, UNINSURED AND UNDERINSURED ADULTS
In North Carolina this is the population that has the greatest difficulty accessing affordable health care services. While eligibility criteria vary from one to the next, Free Clinics conduct rigorous eligibility screening to ensure that the patients they serve are truly in need.
LITTLE OR NO CHARGES
Free Clinics believe that inability to pay should not prevent people from receiving health care. To this end, Free Clinics provide services at little or no charge.
COMPASSIONATE CARE
Free Clinics place strong emphasis on providing non-judgmental, compassionate care, respecting the dignity and self-worth of every patient.
PROJECT HEALTH SHARE.COM
(704) 350-1300
Project HealthShare, Inc., a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is committed to promoting the objectives of Healthy People 2010. Project HealthShare, Inc. supports the federal government’s initiative to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic Disparities in health, which focuses on “closing the gap” with regard to racial and ethnic differences in diabetes, AIDS, cardiovascular disease, and cancer screening.
National Health Services Corp.
Federally-funded health centers care for you, even if you have no health insurance. You pay what you can afford, based on your income. Health centers provide
- checkups when you’re well
- treatment when you’re sick
- complete care when you’re pregnant
- immunizations and checkups for your children
- dental care and prescription drugs for your family
- mental health and substance abuse care if you need it
- HRSA (Free Healthcare)
- Hill-Burton Free and Reduced Cost Healthcare
Hill-Burton Free and Reduced Cost Health Care
Services in surrounding area would be through Department of Social Services at the hospital where you were treated or intend to be treated
Care Credit is a low monthly payment program designed specifically to pay for healthcare that is not covered by insurance. With Care Credit, you can get either a NO INTEREST payment plan or an extended LOW FIXED INTEREST payment plan every time you use it. Most credit cards only offer special or low interest plans for short periods or upon sign up.
Patient Access Network
Every day Patient Access Network helps thousands of under-insured patients afford the copayments for their cancer or chronic disease medications. Since October 2004, they have provided over $116,000,000 in copayment assistance to more than 70,000 patients in need, based on income and condition. Check online for eligibility.
Healthy Humans helps people with chronic illnesses Get Healthy and Stay Healthy. They focus on the underlying causes of illness based on real research and real results. Healthy Humans is a totally different and comprehensive approach to healthcare. And that’s just the beginning…
Call them at (888) 344 – 4325
Annual Medical Report
Annual Medical Report
Insurance companies use “credit reports for your health” to share sensitive personal and medical information. In fact, errors in these medical report files cost policyholders thousands of dollars in higher premiums and enable insurers to rescind coverage. Federal law entitles every individual to request an annual copy of their medical report file from the nationwide specialty consumer reporting agencies.
Under Federal Law, all consumers are entitled to free annual medical reports from the Medical Information Bureau, Inc., Ingenix, Inc. and Milliman, Inc. No consumer should pay for health or life insurance without first checking their free annual medical report files.
All consumers should be aware that the Medical Information Bureau, Inc., Ingenix, Inc. and Milliman, Inc do not offer a single secure website to request, review or dispute your medical report file. To obtain a copy of your free annual medical report file, you must contact each individually by telephone or postal mail.
With a heart to help others and a generous spirit, Joe and Linda Wingo founded Angel Food Ministries in 1994 to provide food for friends and neighbors who were struggling financially. Today the Angel Food program now is helping provide food relief to more than 500,000 families each month.