Financial help when Grants are exhausted?

[brenda548]

Does anybody know of financial help reimbursement programs when PAN and PAF are exhausted and you missed the Emergency Supply Help from Gilead and had to accept the financial liability with the pharmacy in order to finish up the program?  It's not much ($700) compared to what we got ($17000) but it's going to be tough.  And my $650 orthotics fell apart this morning!  Argh-g-gh!

[patra_]

Good luck - keep putting 'one foot in front of the other'.  There must be an answer somewhere.  Pat

[brenda548]

Apparently not.  But thanks for your help.

I will post if I do find any help.

[patra_]

Good Luck.  Others may have some other ideas, too.  P

[brenda548]

NY.  We do have a state thing but we don't meet the income requirements. Thanks for the AARP tip.  I haven't tried that.  

Have definitely run the course with Gilead and J&J/Janssen, not that I intend to stop.

[patra_]

Where are you living (Country, State)?  I was thinking you could check with AARP, as they have a medicalhelp Foundation, or, depending on State, county, high medical expense help.  Also, have you checked w/ the manufacturers of Olysio and Ribavirinto see if each of them has small grants to help get you there?   P

[brenda548]

We got the two grants PAN allows and the one from PAF.  But they were all before they raised their grant allowances and didn't cover the full 24 weeks.  His cirrhosis is stage 4 and the dr wanted 24 weeks.  Actually the dr said that if it was a financial hardship he could miss the last month.  But we talked about it and decided that should he eventually relapse we didn't want to have to wonder if the final month would have made a difference.  

This is all we've used PAN and PAF for.  With diabetes and the cirrhosis and aged 68, he wasn't able to do treatments before these new ones came along.  He's 1b and has done the Solvaldi, Olysio and Ribavirin.  Went undetected at the second month so we're hoping we've got a lot of reason to hope.

[patra_]

B:  Have you applied for more than the first 12 wk grant from the PAN Foundation?

Have you used PAN and PAF  for former treatments?  P