- Charity Care: Offers financial help to patients who cannot pay all or part of their medical bills. 50-100% of the bill may be paid. - Pharmacy Assistance Fund: Provides one-time (once a year) prescription assistance to patients experiencing financial hardship. Request must not exceed $500. - Uninsured Discount: Provides a discount on medically-needed services for uninsured patients

- National non-profit organization that maintains a website offering free information on programs that help people who can't afford medications and healthcare costs - Regularly updated data on over 9,000 assistance programs, 15,000 free/low-cost/sliding scale clinics, and nearly 1,500 drug discount coupons - Resources for specific diseases are published online, at no charge and without registration

Provides emergency financial assistance to veterans, service members, and their families facing temporary hardships due to military service-related incidents or medical issues. Assistance is provided on a case-by-case basis, with no repayment required - Accepts monetary donations online to support military veterans in need and their families - Donated funds are provided to assist families with quality-of-life issues - Funding from the program assists in critical areas such as utilities, auto payments, insurance, auto repair, food, and rent for situations that require a quick turnaround NOTE: Second requests will be accepted, but they must be for essential reasons, with immediate needs supported by the Chain of Command or verifying individuals with at least 45 days separating the two requests.

- Charity Care: Offers financial help to patients who cannot pay all or part of their medical bills. 50-100% of the bill may be paid. - Pharmacy Assistance Fund: Provides one-time (once a year) prescription assistance to patients experiencing financial hardship. Request must not exceed $500. - Uninsured Discount: Provides a discount on medically needed services for uninsured patients

- Charity Care: Offers financial help to patients who cannot pay all or part of their medical bills. 50-100% of the bill may be paid - Pharmacy Assistance Fund: Provides one-time (once a year) prescription assistance to patients experiencing financial hardship. Request must not exceed $500 - Uninsured Discount: Provides a discount on medically-needed services for uninsured patients

Pays Part B Medicare, Medigap, commercial health insurance, and COBRA premiums for dialysis patients who have insufficient income and savings; this is a "last resort" source of financial assistance. The American Kidney Fund Safety Net Grants cover: - Disaster relief grants - Transportation expenses for travel to dialysis - Prescription medications - Other necessities that patients may have related to their treatment - Kidney donor expenses - The cost of dialysis while traveling (emergency dialysis) Also offer nutritional products and durable medical supplies at discount prices through contracts with certain mail-order pharmacies

Provides personal items such as clothing, eyeglasses, prescription expense, etc.

- Charity Care: Offers financial help to patients who cannot pay all or part of their medical bills. 50-100% of the bill may be paid. - Pharmacy Assistance Fund: Provides one-time (once a year) prescription assistance to patients experiencing financial hardship. Request must not exceed $500. - Uninsured Discount: Provides a discount on medically-needed services for uninsured patients

- Charity Care: Offers financial help to patients who cannot pay all or part of their medical bills. 50-100% of the bill may be paid. - Pharmacy Assistance Fund: Provides one-time (once a year) prescription assistance to patients experiencing financial hardship. Request must not exceed $500. - Uninsured Discount: Provides a discount on medically-needed services for uninsured patients

Patients who need to speak with a financial counselor, need cost of care estimates or determine if they may qualify for financial assistance to pay for procedures may reach out about options. Financial counselors can help individuals understand patients' responsibilities and may offer no-interest payment plans.

Provides emergency assistance: - Limited help with prescriptions - Occasional transportation - Rental assistance, funding dependent on availability - Utility assistance through the HeatShare Program. Only assists with heating related bills.

- Charity Care: Offers financial help to patients who cannot pay all or part of their medical bills. 50-100% of the bill may be paid. - Pharmacy Assistance Fund: Provides one-time (once a year) prescription assistance to patients experiencing financial hardship. Request must not exceed $500. - Uninsured Discount: Provides a discount on medically-needed services for uninsured patients

- Charity Care: Offers financial help to patients who cannot pay all or part of their medical bills. 50-100% of the bill may be paid. - Pharmacy Assistance Fund: Provides one-time (once a year) prescription assistance to patients experiencing financial hardship. Request must not exceed $500. - Uninsured Discount: Provides a discount on medically-needed services for uninsured patients

- Charity Care: Offers financial help to patients who cannot pay all or part of their medical bills. 50-100% of the bill may be paid. - Pharmacy Assistance Fund: Provides one-time (once a year) prescription assistance to patients experiencing financial hardship. Request must not exceed $500. - Uninsured Discount: Provides a discount on medically-needed services for uninsured patients

Provides emergency funding to restaurant and beverage employees or owners, and restaurant/bar supplier employees who are facing unforeseen circumstances. The funds are used to help pay for essentials like groceries, clothing, medications, and may cover the cost of rent, natural disaster damages, lost wages, and more. There is no deadline for requests and no cap on the amount given. Types of crises the funds may help with include accidents, change of circumstance, housing crisis, medical/dental issue, natural disaster, or victims of crime/violence. Grants are awarded based on unforeseen financial crises, and applications must be submitted through the website to be considered. Southern Smoke will evaluate each case based on the state of an applicant's emergency.

- Charity Care: Offers financial help to patients who cannot pay all or part of their medical bills. 50-100% of the bill may be paid. - Pharmacy Assistance Fund: Provides one-time (once a year) prescription assistance to patients experiencing financial hardship. Request must not exceed $500. - Uninsured Discount: Provides a discount on medically-needed services for uninsured patients

- Charity Care: Offers financial help to patients who cannot pay all or part of their medical bills. 50-100% of the bill may be paid. - Pharmacy Assistance Fund: Provides one-time (once a year) prescription assistance to patients experiencing financial hardship. Request must not exceed $500. - Uninsured Discount: Provides a discount on medically-needed services for uninsured patients

- Provides financial assistance for emergencies including rent payment, prescription expenses, electricity service payment, heating fuel service payment, gas service payment, and water service payment. Financial assistance may also help pay for household goods and clothing through the thrift store. - Might assist with mortgage if found eligible during intake interview

- Charity Care: Offers financial help to patients who cannot pay all or part of their medical bills. 50-100% of the bill may be paid. - Pharmacy Assistance Fund: Provides one-time (once a year) prescription assistance to patients experiencing financial hardship. Request must not exceed $500. - Uninsured Discount: Provides a discount on medically-needed services for uninsured patients

Providing prescription expense assistance for persons in life-threatening situations

Temporary emergency assistance (up to $150) on a case by case basis including: - Clothing - Dental bill payment assistance - Electricity bill payment assistance - Food vouchers - Furniture - Gas bill payment assistance - Gas vouchers - Health insurance premium assistance - Heating fuel bill payment assistance - Medical bill payment assistance - Mortgage payment assistance - Prescription expense assistance - Rent deposit and rent payment assistance - Water service assistance. Assistance must resolve the situation - not ongoing need.

Community clinic serves individuals without medical assistance or health insurance and have a health concern. Various specialty services are available, including: - Acute care - Breast Clinic in partnership with the SAGE Program - Cardiology - Diabetes and hypertension - Eye care - Neurology - Pediatric care - Psychiatry and psychology - Pulmonary - REACH (Rochester Education and Advocacy for Community Health-general adult assessments by Mayo medical students) - Rheumatology - Prescription assistance

Cash-grant program for adults with low incomes experiencing a household emergency. Adults can receive assistance once every 12 months. The assistance received must resolve the crisis. Adults must use their own money first. The amount of assistance provided might not cover the entire emergency, but it can help. NOTE: Funding is very limited

Provides patient services while helping to eliminate obstacles in access to quality healthcare. Services include: - Co-pay relief program to patients who meet financial and medical criteria to help them with prescription drug co-payments their insurance requires relative to their diagnosis as well as co-insurance and deductibles. Co-pay relief programs depend on the availability of funds. - Counselors work directly with patients as well as care providers to obtain necessary medical, insurance, and income information to advance the application in an expeditious manner

Offers a range of care including: - Acute illness care - Disease management (diabetes, blood pressure, and others) - Disease prevention and wellness - Medication assistance - MNsure and other Advocacy Services - Physical examinations - Reproductive Women's health in collaboration with The Center Clinic