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Cancer is also expensive. How
can I manage financially?
Cancer Supportive Services can direct you to financial counseling
that can help you navigate the health insurance and managed
care maze. Our social workers may also refer you to government-sponsored
and specialized community-based resources that might ease
your budget. For those whose resources and insurance coverage
are extremely limited, grants may be available to minimize
obstacles to care.
While insurance helps to ease the burden for many, those
with poor or no coverage find themselves overwhelmed by the
financial demands of treating their disease. Currently, Cancer
Center physicians may recommend that the hospital's financial
aid office negotiate lower fee schedules with select patients.
Our financial counseling services have been broadened to help
our patients steer through complex health insurance and managed
care forms so as to guarantee that poor and underinsured patients
have reasonable access to services that may not be covered
by their health insurance.
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