What does the American Transplant Foundation do for transplant patients?
Contact Us About Us The American Transplant Foundation (ATF) is the only 501 (c)(3) nonprofit in the country that provides three tiers of support for living donors, transplant recipients, and their families. We go beyond awareness by providing real help to patients who need it the most.
What is the Patient Assistance Program for transplant recipients?
For transplant recipients, assistance helps provide one-time, emergency funds to cover insurance premiums, medication co-payments, and direct pharmacy costs. Last year, the Patient Assistance Program helped 235 living organ donors and transplant recipients in 48 states with $154,309 in direct assistance.
How can I contact the American Transplant Foundation?
Click here to learn more or email us at [email protected]. Your support for living donors, recipients, and their families makes life-changing and life saving organ transplants possible. Team Transplant
Who is eligible for Transplant Foundation grant?
Transplant Recipients who have received any organ transplant and is undergoing post-transplant care. This is a one-time, temporary assistance grant to bridge the gap. Patients must reside in the United States; legal status is not questioned. Patient must not have received more than 1 grant from the American Transplant Foundation.
Are there organizations that can help patients afford the cost of transplantation?
National Foundation for Transplants (NFT)NFT offers hope and help to transplant patients and their families by providing fundraising expertise, advocacy, promoting organ and tissue donation, and supporting innovative solutions for lifesaving treatment.
Does Medicare cover travel and lodging for transplants?
Travel and lodging is covered for certain solid organ transplants at facilities that have a Medicare provider agreement and are certified by CMS for the relevant covered procedure. Travel and lodging is also covered for other transplants such as stem cell and cornea.
How long is the wait for an organ transplant?
3-5 yearsIn general, the average time frame for waiting can be 3-5 years at most centers and even longer in some geographical regions of the country. You should ask your transplant center to get a better understanding of the wait times.
What is the average MELD score for liver transplant?
Urgency of using extended criteria organs He also explains how the liver transplant surgical team expedited end-stage liver disease transplants for a large health care system's patients: Despite average 20 to 25 MELD scores, patients waited two to three years for transplant at large Southwestern centers.
How long can you stay on Medicare after a kidney transplant?
36 monthsIf you're eligible for Medicare only because of permanent kidney failure, your Medicare coverage will end: 12 months after the month you stop dialysis treatments. 36 months after the month you have a kidney transplant.
Which organ has the longest waiting list?
patients. As of 2021, the organ with the most patients waiting for transplants in the U.S. was kidneys, followed by livers.
What organ transplant has the lowest success rate?
The least productive repeat procedure, liver transplantation, adds only about 1.5 life-years per recipient. In sum, across all solid organs, 2.3 million life-years have been added through 2017; we project that the total will exceed 4 million.
What disqualifies you from getting an organ transplant?
Certain conditions, such as having HIV, actively spreading cancer, or severe infection would exclude organ donation. Having a serious condition like cancer, HIV, diabetes, kidney disease, or heart disease can prevent you from donating as a living donor.
Does Medicare Part B cover transplant drugs?
Part B will only cover your transplant drugs after you're enrolled in Part B. There won't be any retroactive coverage. Beginning January 1, 2023, Medicare will offer a new benefit that helps continue to pay for your immunosuppressive drugs beyond 36 months, if you don't have other health coverage.
What is the average cost of a liver transplant?
In the 2017–2018 fiscal year, the cost of one liver transplant admission in the region was $Can102,597, excluding the physician costs. In comparison, in 2017, the estimate of charges for one liver transplant admission in the USA was $US463,200, excluding physician costs [27].
What is the American Transplant Foundation?
The American Transplant Foundation is the only nonprofit in the country that provides emotional, educational, and financial support to living donors, transplant recipients, and their families regardless of their legal status.
What to do if you lose wages for living donors?
Have your social worker or coordinator apply for financial assistance (lost wages for living donors, access to medication for recipients).
What is the American Transplant Foundation?
Across all 50 states, the American Transplant Foundation and our community of heroes fight to save the lives of the men, women, and children who need and undergo life-saving organ transplants.
What organs do we donate?
We maximize living organ donation and support all types of solid organ transplant patients, including kidney, liver, lung, and heart transplants .
Who can submit a transplant application?
Applications may only be submitted by a transplant program social worker or a transplant program coordinator. Patients seeking assistance should contact their assigned transplant program social worker or transplant program coordinator for details.
What is Yi Fa and Margaret Chang?
The Yi-Fa and Margaret Chang Giving Fund was established in April of 2020 to provide lifesaving financial assistance to transplant recipients who are experiencing significant financial hardship that affects access to post-transplant care when they need it the most. While funding is available, this fund will provide transplant recipients an emergency assistance grant up to $1,000 to cover the expenses (hotels, groceries, utility bills, etc.) that poses a direct financial barrier to patient’s post-transplant care.
What is the National Foundation for Transplants?
National Foundation for Transplants (NFT)NFT offers hope and help to transplant patients and their families by providing fundraising expertise, advocacy, promoting organ and tissue donation, and supporting innovative solutions for lifesaving treatment.
Is Financial Assistance for Transplant Patients Available?
Organ transplants can be an expensive surgical procedure. The reality is that for many transplant patients and candidates, it is not feasible to pay for the full cost of transplant surgery or the additional postoperative costs out of pocket. Fortunately, there are resources and transplant patient financial aid programs they can turn to that can help pay for their procedure or aftercare.
Help with insurance premium payments
If you have kidney failure but are unable to afford the cost of your health insurance premiums, AKF's Health Insurance Premium Program (HIPP) may be able to help you pay for your premiums through grants.
Safety Net Grant Program
Our Safety Net Grant Program provides grants to help people with health care expenses that are not covered by insurance. Typical expenses include the cost of transportation to and from dialysis, over-the-counter medicines, co-payments and other needs, for example, dentures.
Learn more about our other assistance programs
If you are living with kidney failure in a community that has been struck by a flood, hurricane, tornado or other disaster, AKF may be able to help.
