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Posted by Renee Gaines on 10/25/2001 from 24.4.254.66:

In reply to: Financial help for women with breast cancer posted by Tami Hrudka on 10/10/2001 from 152.163.207.52:

Dear Tami,

I am sending additional information about the questions you had about your mother’s financial situation in paying for medical care.

We also invite you to complete the personal profile form via our website at page: http://www.winabc.org/talktous2.html. If you prefer you can write an email and give me your telephone number and I will call you personally. I certainly hope that these resources will be of some assistance to you and your family. You and your mother are welcome to call us via our toll free number at (866) 2 WIN ABC.

Also, please check the resources section of our web site. the California Women's Law Center is one of our listed resources. Even if your mother does not reside in California, this is a wonderful organization that may be able to help guide both of you get the financial help your mother needs at this time.

In addition, we have an audiotape that we will send at no charge to you, "Finding Ways to Pay for Care" that lists many resources available for financial assistance.

In addition, many pharmaceutical companies have assistance programs to help with the cost of medications such as Tamoxifen and other cancer related drugs. Please visit this website http://www.needymeds.com/

The link below is the full description about Medicaid benefits and drug reimbursement programs. There are many requirements in order for the patient to qualify.

Details about this Medicaid option are available a
www.hcfa.gov/medicaid/bccpt. I have also created a link below this message for ease of navigation.

This link was provided from the following news release about Medicaid.

Headline: HHS APPROVES 13 NEW STATE PLANS TO EXTEND MEDICAID COVERAGE TO WOMEN WITH BREAST, CERVICAL CANCER

HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today approved 13 new states' requests to extend Medicaid benefits to uninsured women who are diagnosed with breast or cervical cancer through a federal screening program.

Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Florida, Kansas, Hawaii, Nebraska, Maine, Michigan, Vermont and Wyoming are the most recent states to take advantage of the federal Breast and Cervical Cancer Prevention and Treatment Act of 2000, which allowed states to expand Medicaid coverage to these women who otherwise would not have health coverage. In the year since the law's enactment, HHS has approved this expanded Medicaid eligibility in 32 states.

"These expansions offer help, hope and health care to women who otherwise would receive only a diagnosis that may sound like a death sentence," Secretary Thompson said. "With these approvals, women who had no health coverage can now get immediate access to life-saving treatment through Medicaid."

Under the new law, states can extend the full Medicaid benefit package to women who were screened through the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and found to need treatment for breast or cervical cancer.

Since the CDC program began in 1990, more than 3 million breast and cervical cancer screening tests have been provided to more than 1.8 million women.

To qualify for Medicaid coverage under the program, women must be under age 65, not eligible for Medicaid and without creditable health care coverage.

Under the law, these women may now be eligible for Medicaid benefits for the duration of their cancer treatment. States that choose to extend Medicaid benefits to women under this new option will receive a federal match of up to 85 percent of the costs of treatment.

Details about this Medicaid option are available at
http://www.hcfa.gov/medicaid/bccpt

Information about the CDC screening program is at

http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/nbccedp/index.htm



Renee D. Gaines
Director of Community Outreach
and Public Relations
WIN Against Breast Cancer
536 S. Second Ave., Ste K
Covina, CA 91723
www.winabc.org
renee@winabc.org
626-332-2255 telephone
626-332-2585 fax

• Free Breast Cancer Treatment for Patients Who Qualify

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