Financial Support
You’re Not Alone: Trusted Resources to Ease the Cost of Cancer Care
Accessing cancer treatment often brings financial challenges beyond medical bills, including travel, lodging, food, and everyday expenses. Many patients and caregivers face difficulty affording co-pays, insurance premiums, or the costs of relocating temporarily for care. Fortunately, a number of trusted national nonprofits and assistance programs help reduce these burdens by offering support for transportation, housing, medications, and essential living costs.
On this page, you’ll find a list of national programs that assist cancer patients and families with the practical and financial aspects of treatment. If you don’t find a program that fits your needs here, consider speaking with your hospital social worker, insurance provider, or a local cancer support organization for more options.
Treatment Support At Every Stage
Financial Support for Treatment
Accesia Health
Accesia Health assists patients with co-pays, insurance premiums, medical costs, and treatment-related travel expenses. Services are available based on diagnosis and financial eligibility. For more information, visit the website or call 800-366-7741.
CancerCare Financial and Co-Pay Assistance
CancerCare offers limited financial help for cancer-related costs such as transportation, co-pays, and other out-of-pocket expenses. Oncology social workers can also help identify additional resources. For more information, visit the website or call 800-813-4673.
Chemo Divas
Chemo Divas supports women of color affected by cancer by providing financial assistance and access to a national resource directory. Services focus on reducing disparities in care and improving access. For more information, visit chemodivas.org or email info@chemodivas.org.
Family Reach – Clinical Trial Access Program
Family Reach’s Clinical Trial Access Program helps cancer patients overcome financial barriers to enrolling in clinical trials by covering essential living expenses like housing, transportation, food, and utilities. Support is delivered through its Financial Resource Center in partnership with social workers and treatment centers nationwide. For more information, visit the website or call 857-233-2764.
Good Days Transportation, Copay, Premium, and Testing Grants
Good Days provides financial assistance to insured cancer patients for treatment-related expenses, including medication co-pays, insurance premiums, diagnostic testing, and travel costs like flights, lodging, and car rentals. Applicants must have a qualifying diagnosis and income under 500% of the Federal Poverty Level. For more information, visit the website or call 877-968-7233.
Grind for Life
Grind for Life provides financial assistance to cancer patients who need to travel long distances for treatment. Founded by cancer survivor Mike Rogers, the nonprofit helps relieve the burden of travel expenses. For more information, visit grindforlife.org or call 561-252-3839.
HealthWell Foundation Transportation Grant
The HealthWell Foundation provides disease-specific grants to cover co-pays, insurance premiums, deductibles, and travel-related costs. Funding amounts vary by program and eligibility. For more information, visit healthwellfoundation.org or call 800-675-8416.
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society-Patient Financial Assistance Programs
LLS offers a wide range of support for blood cancer patients, including help with co-pays, insurance premiums, medical debt, transportation, lodging, dental care, and urgent non-medical expenses like rent, food, and utilities. Additional programs include scholarships for survivors and specialized grants for CAR T-cell therapy and local needs. For more information, visit the website or call (877) 557-2672.
The National Children’s Cancer Society (NCCS)
NCCS provides direct financial support for non-medical expenses related to childhood cancer treatment, including travel, lodging, meals, and emergency needs. The organization also supports hotel stays and other temporary housing for families traveling to treatment centers. For more information, visit the website or call 314-241-1600.
NeedyMeds
NeedyMeds is a nonprofit that provides information on programs to help individuals afford medications and other healthcare costs. They also offer a discount drug card and searchable database. For more information, visit needymeds.org or call 800-503-6897.
PAN Foundation
The PAN Foundation provides disease-specific grants for out-of-pocket medical costs, including co-pays, travel, and lodging. They serve more than 100,000 patients each year across the U.S. For more information, visit panfoundation.org or call 866-316-7263.
Patient Advocate Foundation – Co-Pay Relief Program
This program provides direct payment of prescription and treatment-related co-pays for insured patients through an online system available 24/7. Funds are diagnosis-specific and awarded based on financial need. For more information, visit the website or call 866-512-3861.
Pinky Swear Foundation
Pinky Swear provides grants to families of children with cancer to cover non-medical expenses like housing, food, and transportation. The organization is based in Minnesota but supports families nationwide. For more information, visit the website or call 952-378-1919.
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