As Advocacy for Patients finds new resources, we will share them with you by posting links here.
For health insurance, try the following:
Need to know what insurance plans are available in your state? Want info about the new Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plans? Want answers about federal health reform? Go here, to the new federal health insurance web portal.
Jennifer Jaff on health insurance on Healthtalk.com - this is a very comprehensive interview that will answer all of your questions about health insurance and then some.
Health Insurance 101: How To Get Coverage, by Advocacy for Patients' Jennifer C. Jaff, Esq., published in the Spring edition of Take Charge, the magazine of the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America.
For state-by-state information about what health insurance options are available, go to the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute's website here or the National Association of Health Underwriters website here.
To find a free clinic near you, go here.
Patient Services, Inc. provides financial assistance to help pay the costs of insurance and health care for a specified list of diseases.
For information on choosing a Medicare plan, go here.
In our new IVIg Patient Resource Center, we explain in detail how to file an insurance appeal. For General Information on How to File Insurance Appeals, go here.
If you have a dispute with your insurance company over whether something your doctor ordered is covered, instructions on how to write an appeal are here.
Although Advocacy for Patients has not had direct experience with all of these, but we urge you to explore them -- and please share your feedback so we can evaluate the various organizations.