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AKF Safety Net Grants
The out-of-pocket costs for dialysis patients can be enormous. Safety Net Grants from the American Kidney Fund help dialysis patients with a wide variety of financial needs related to treatment. Last year 25,000 patients received these grants.
AKF is still continuing to fund approved 2011 Safety Net requests. We anticipate that the remaining approved requests from 2011 will be funded by the end of March 31, 2012. Therefore, the Safety Net and the Emergency Fund Programs will reopen and begin accepting new applications on April 1, 2012. All other programs are currently accepting new applications at this time.
Safety Net Grants Cover:
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Treatment-specific expenses such as transportation costs to reach dialysis; over-the-counter medicines, medication co-payments, kidney donor expenses and other necessities such as dentures.
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Medications, nutritional products, and durable medical supplies. The American Kidney Fund has contracted with ECHO Pharmacy®, a mail order pharmacy, to provide medications and supplies at discount prices, thereby increasing the purchasing power of patients’ grants.
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Disaster relief assistance when catastrophic events strike dialysis patients’ communities. This program provides funds to help patients replace medications, food and household items and pay for other necessities lost because of disasters such as flooding, hurricanes, etc.
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The cost of dialysis while traveling. Patients or facilities may be reimbursed for the 20% of treatment costs not covered by Medicare or any other source for emergency transient dialysis. Grants are limited to travel necessitated by death or serious illness in the family or for the purpose of kidney transplant workup only.
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Important note to dialysis center social workers:
AKF is no longer accepting or processing outdated versions of program applications. All out of date applications will be returned. In order to insure timely application processing, please download an up-to-date version of our program applications today |
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