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- The Foundation provides financial assistance to visual artists (painters, sculptors and artists who work on paper, including printmakers) of established ability with demonstrable financial need. Grants are intended for a one-year period of time.
- This website gives Wisconsin citizens the ability to buy certain prescriptions at significantly lower prices directly from Canadian pharmacies that state representatives have visited and found to be safe, reputable, and reliable. It also provides information about SeniorCare, the new Medicare drug benefit, and other programs that may be an option.
- Financial assistance is available to dancers and choreographers who meet eligibility criteria. This assistance is administered by The Actors Fund.
- Professional musicians who performed in New Orleans prior to Hurricane Katrina and are in need are eligible for short-term financial assistance as well as help in creating long-term sustainability.
- The RESCU Foundation was established to promote and maintain the health and medical well-being of the participants of Renaissance Faires, historical performances and other artistic events through several programs including financial assistance for emergency medical needs.
- The fund provides emergency financial assistance to former Motown artists of the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s.
- RxHope is a web-based patient assistance resource which can be used to research government and corporate sponsored patient assistance programs for over 1000 medications. Medications are searchable by brand name, Patient Assistance Program or Pharmaceutical Company.
- The SLE Lupus Foundation provides patient services, education, public awareness, and funding for lupus research. Services include counseling, referrals and emergency assistance.
- The Sabine Medical Center in Louisiana is a 48 bed hospital with a 24-hour physician staffed emergency room. They provide an array of services such as indigent/charity care, financial counseling, physical therapy, a hospital-based pharmacy, and a Radiology Department and Cardio-Pulmonary Department.
- The Salvation Army in Anchorage, Alaska provides family emergency services and assistance including clothing vouchers, prescription vouchers, energy bill assistance, shelter, food and addiction recovery programs, such as chemical dependency classes. The Salvation Army also has children & youth services, recovery services, senior programs and spiritual services.
- The SAG Foundation provides emergency financial assistance for the aid, relief and care of SAG members west of the Mississippi in times of need. The Emergency Assistance program, the Self-Pay (COBRA)Premium program, and the Catastrophic Health Fund assist eligible members facing challenging circumstances.
- The Fund provides grants to eligible Guild members and their dependents who suffer from catastrophic illness or injury and are unable to afford the Guild Health Plan's Self-Pay Program.
- The Motion Picture Players Welfare Fund provides emergency financial assistance to SAG members east of the Mississippi struggling with a financial, personal or medical crisis. The MPPWF can be used for rent, utilities, mental health, medical care, and other basic living expenses. In the New York tri-state area, the fund is administered by The Actors Fund; contact The Actors Fund for more information. All others should contact their local SAG branch office.
- This informational site give a concise description of self-employed health insurance tax deductions.
- This comprehensive guide can help determine the need Medicare Supplement Insurance. It lists the available plans in Vermont, eligibility requirements, benefits offered, prices of plans and a list of information resources that can provide you with free advice.
- Simple Care is a network of providers who have agreed to discount their fees between 30-50% for patients who agree to pay in full at time of service. This is NOT an insurance plan but can be used by people who are uninsured, underinsured, or who have high deductible health plans and would like to bring down their payments for provider visits. The fee to patients is $20 per year. There is a clickable map to see which providers in your area participate.
- The SDBC is a government funded entity that offers a wide range of services for small businesses including free consulting advice and workshops about health insurance topics. There are 20 SBCS centers througout Oregon.
- SOS helps singers who have financial needs resulting from personal, family, or medical crises. Applicants must have derived their primary income from professional singing for five or more years.
- SCBS Artist Assistance Fund is designed to provide immediate assistance to blues performers to help defray the financial burden of medical costs and other expenses placed on people in time of crisis.
- The Stuntwomen's Foundation provides financial assistance grants to stuntwomen who are unable to work due to debilitating illness or injuries.
- Sweet Relief provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians who are facing illness, disability, or age-related problems. Providing financial assistance for medical expenses, alternative therapies, prescriptions, and living expenses if the artist is unable to work, Sweet Relief also provides grants for retired or semi-retired older musicians, which helps pay living expenses.
- This site, a part of Association of American Medical Colleges, provides a directory for individuals without insurance or poor-quality insurance to get quality healthcare from a U.S. medical school or teaching hospital. These centers are a critical component of the national safety net for America's millions of uninsured and underinsured, providing countless community-based programs designed to help working families.
- This project offers financial assistance for medical benefits to HIV positive residents of South Dakota.
- The Authors League Fund helps professional writers and dramatists in financial need as a result of medical or health-related problems, temporary loss of income or other misfortune. The Fund gives open-ended, interest-free, no-strings-attached loans.
- Chicago's Betty Mitchell Foundation can assist AFTRA members in need of financial assistance. To learn more about BMF, contact the AFTRA Chicago office at 323-634-8181.
- The Foundation's Patient Aid Program was created to assist with some of the expenses transplant patients are subjected to over the course of treatment. Often, even in situations where the patient has excellent insurance coverage, many costs associated with bone marrow and stem cell transplants are not covered by insurance, such as the cost of donor searches, compatibility testing, bone marrow harvesting, medications, home and child care services, medical equipment, transportation, cord blood banking, and housing expenses. The application for Patient Aid requires information about diagnosis, treatment, financial status and information from a social worker and physician.
- The Florida Prescription Drug Price website provides pricing information for the 100 most commonly used prescription drugs in Florida.
- The Haven Foundation is a national, nonprofit organization making grants to freelance writers and artists experiencing career-threatening illness, accident, natural disaster or other emergency or personal catastrophe.
- The Musicians' Relief Fund is an emergency assistance fund that helps cover expenses when a member musician is in financial distress and cannot work due to a sudden illness or injury.
- The MBS provides professional musicians with up to $1,000 in temporary financial assistance for medical emergencies.
- The Emergency Financial Assistance Program is available to veterans and their immediate family who are in need of emergency financial assistance, for, among other things, emergency medical and dental expenses. This site explains this program and many other state benefits.
- Administered under the PEN Writers’ Fund, grants of up to $2,000 are given to professional writers and editors who face serious financial difficulties because of HIV or AIDS-related illness.
- PDS offers financial assistance to dancers and choreographers who meet eligibility criteria. Administered by The Actors Fund.
- The Lemonade Fund is a confidential resource for theatre workers with terminal or life-threatening illnesses who are in need of supplemental financial assistance to improve the qualifty of their lives as they deal with medical conditions.
- TRIO identifies medical insurance and financial assistance resources for transplant candidates and recipients. In addition, the Lend A Helping Ear Network helps transplant candidates, potential candidates, recipients, donors, and their families establish contact with others in similar circumstances. The Resources page on this site is also a good place to find other transplant- related and organ-specific organizations.
- Vermont CARES assists HIV+ individuals in locating financial and other resources within the community to ensure that basic needs (shelter, food, medical care) are available. Vermont CARES also offers FREE, rapid, anonymous, oral HIV testing and test counseling with regular testing hours at four locations throughout Vermont.
- The Uninsured Medical Catastrophe Fund generally will pay for services needed to treat a life-threatening illness or injury. The applicant must be a Virginia resident, be uninsured for the needed treatment, have an income of under 300% of the FPL, and have an acute illness or injury or be in the acute phase of a chronic illness. The services must also be part of an approved treatment plan. This site explains all elegibility guidelines and limits of the fund.
- The emergency assistance program is used to assist individuals and families in meeting a financial crises when they are without available resources. The program is designed to provide short-term emergency financial assistance with which eligible individuals and families may obtain items or services needed to eliminate an emergency or crisis. Items of need include transportation and medical service.
- This website explains HCTC's benefits to West Virginians.
- The Motion Picture Pioneers Assistance Fund serves veterans of the theatrical community - those who have worked in the exhibition, distribution or production of theater or movies - who are encountering an illness, injury or life-changing event.
- The Good & Welfare Fund provides temporary assistance to WGA members experiencing financial stress in emergency situations. Loans are intended to assist in the procurement of life necessities.
- This Q&A, written by a tax adviser, concerns the deductibility of health insurance premiums for the part-time small business owner.
- The Hill-Burton Act authorizes assistance to public and other nonprofit medical facilities such as acute care general hospitals, special hospitals, nursing homes, public health centers, and rehabilitation facilities. This site explains a Hill-Burton facility's requirements, and what services patients are entitled to.