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Financial and insurance issues
Share tips, resources, and ideas how to ask for and get the financial assistance that is out there.
Patient Advocates
- By JanJ · New reply yesterday at 11:57 pm
- 7 replies
- A former colleague of mine at a newspaper in Atlanta just sent to me an article she wrote about patient advocates, a group that helps patients fight the financial battle that comes with illness, whether ...
cost of chemotherapy for uninsured patient
- By mathwhiz · New reply yesterday at 4:37 pm
- 16 replies
- hi, my mother doesn't have insurance nor does she qualify for medical/medicare because of immigration status. She is 65. so I am going to be paying for surgery/chemotherapy out of my pocket. Does anyone ...
Insurance reimbursement for travel etc to distant Cancer Centers
- By Shamrock2009 · New reply May 15, 2009
- 8 replies
- OVCA Sisters, I see there are discussions among members who either plan to travel or have traveled to Cancer Centers out of their immediate residential area for either second opinions or treatment. Look ...
SSD and LTD payments
- By Shamrock2009 · New reply May 14, 2009
- 13 replies
- I have recently applied for SSD (have stage IIIc ovca). If approved I will be eligible to receive payments in July after a 6 month leave from work. I have been receiving STD from work up to now. I spoke ...
Anybody have experience fighting for a PET?
- By jeaniet · New reply May 11, 2009
- 10 replies
- Long story short..... Diagnosed 3C Jan 08. Had Kaiser Colorado at that time. No problem getting a PET........had 3 in a 6 month period. Never even suggested that I get CT. CA 125 is not a valid monitor ...
Medicare Contractors should pay for Avastin
- By Fix-it · Posted May 4, 2009
- 0 replies
- I have been following the discussions on the difficulties many of us have had getting Avastin (Bevacizumab) paid for by Medicare. It appears as if the contractors in some states (Trailblazers seems to ...
OVCA and health insurance in US
- By soma · New reply April 28, 2009
- 11 replies
- Dear all, This is Soma once again back. I read every day on this site, which gives me hope and direction. I was dx in 2006 dec had my first recurrence in March 2008 and then again in March 2009. But reading ...
State Disability vs. Social Security Disability
- By Lemona · New reply April 25, 2009
- 9 replies
- I'm a little confused about State Disability (short term) which is what we have in California vs. Social Security Disability. I was on short terms state disability last year before I went back to work ...
Social Security Disability
- By skatemama · New reply April 13, 2009
- 18 replies
- Hello all: I am new to this community and I hoped some of you could share some of your experiences with applying for SSD. I applied for SSD on March 4th but haven't heard anything back. I find myself ...
Medicare and OVCA
- By Cookie519 · New reply April 12, 2009
- 11 replies
- Did anyone see either 60 mins. or Dateline where they had people being thrown off insurance? One lady was having chemo for ovca. Another person had to pay a steep co-insurance from Medicare to get treatment ...
good news regarding social security disabiltiy for ovca
- By hinsopa · New reply April 6, 2009
- 12 replies
- http://www.socialsecurity.gov/compassion ateallowances Only 50 medical conditions made this first list and ovca was one of them ...
Long Term Disability through work? (anyone?)
- By ReneeK1 · New reply March 30, 2009
- 16 replies
- I've been seriously considering going out on long term disability through my work plan. They would pay 60% of my salary. It isn't near enough to meet our expenses though. Has anyone done this, and what ...
Once again-disability
- By JanJ · New reply March 25, 2009
- 7 replies
- I have so many of you to thank. I just happened to go online to see my bank account and saw that yesterday -- two (2) weeks after applying for disability benefits with Social Security -- there was a deposit ...
More on Disability Benefits
- By JanJ · New reply March 19, 2009
- 13 replies
- I just heard from the adjudicator assigned to my case. I applied for disability benefits just a little over a week ago. She said that it's very, very difficult in Georgia to get approved. I told her I ...
Do any of you know about the ticket to work program?
- By kla · New reply March 17, 2009
- 1 reply
- The more I read the more confused I get. Basically I'd like to try going back to work ,but don't want to lose my medicare as I've already blown my savings and just couldn't wait out the SSD or Medicare ...
Avastin and Cytoxan
- By rschointuch · New reply February 20, 2009
- 10 replies
- Hello. My wife had surgery over a year ago - complete hystorectomy and colonectomy. She went through regimens of first line chemo and was determined to be platinum resistant. Her CA 125 kept rising from ...
Social Security Disability
- By abbaschild · New reply February 13, 2009
- 24 replies
- Has anyone else applied for social security disability? Someone told me that ovarian cancer patients are now approved for disability so I gave that info to a woman who has no insurance. ... but was wondering ...
No Insurance
- By abbaschild · New reply February 6, 2009
- 8 replies
- I just talked to a woman here in SC who has ovca..had her surgery and needs radiation and then chemo. Trouble is they have no insurance and they're worried about losing their house. She is very depressed ...
Hoorah Mary Jerome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- By kla · New reply January 19, 2009
- 3 replies
- I wanted to tell you guys about this woman . She is a late stage ovarian cancer patient who took on an insurance company and won. The basics as I understand is she got tired of paying the bulk of charges ...
Tough Times All Around
- By J-lopez · New reply November 20, 2008
- 7 replies
- I am 50 years old. June of 2008 I was diagnosed with stage 2 Ovarian Cancer, my CA125 level went back to normal after my surgery. I am just about to have my 5th round of my six chemo treatments. My outlook ...
