Individuals have different financial and insurance situations making it important to evaluate multiple options. To learn more about:
- Transplant Living – Costs and Resources. Transplant cost vary depending upon the location, hospital, organ type, insurance coverage and more. Transplant Living website provides information and resources that may help you as you research your options including housing, medication, transportation, in-home support, financial planning, insurance, and financial assistance.
- Transplant Living – Financial Resources Directory This resource provides options to help fund
- Transplant Living – People You Should Know The page provides information about the transplant team. You do not have to face any concerns alone. Ask a member of your transplant team.
- Transplant Living – Frequently Asked Questions/Questions to Ask This page provides questions you should ask the transplant financial coordinator, insurance provider, and fundraising organizations.
- Financial Help for Treatment of Kidney Failure Resource page for individuals with kidney failure and need help paying for their care.
- Medicare Coverage of Kidney Dialysis and Kidney Transplant Services An official government booklet that tells you the basics of Medicare, how Medicare helps pay for kidney dialysis and kidney transplant, and where a person can get help.
- Medicare’s Coverage of Dialysis and Kidney Transplant Benefits: Getting Started An official government booklet that tells you about the benefits of Medicare coverage of kidney dialysis and kidney transplant.
- National Living Donor Assistance Center The Center’s mission is to help those individuals who are thinking about or have made the decision to be a living donor and how to cover non-medical expenses like travel, lost wages and dependent care.
- COTA and Raising Funds for Child Transplant Related Expenses The Children’s Organ Transplant Association (COTA) can help remove the costs to a life-saving transplant by providing fundraising assistance and family support for families with children and young adults on a transplant journey.
- American Living Organ Donor Fund The mission of this organization is to help living organ donors overcome cost burdens related with living organ donation. They also provide other assistance to help living donors make informed and safe decisions. Living donation is a personal choice.
- Meredith Haga Foundation The Meredith Haga Foundation provides financial assistance to Living Organ Donors to help cover living expenses for individuals who are in the living organ donor process. The Foundation wants to help lower the stress and hardships that may occur with being a living donor, including recovery time.