Most hospitals, nursing homes and clinics offer free or low-cost heath care under the Hill-Burton program.
You must request and apply for Hill-Burton assistance (you can even apply after you have been discharged).
A special hotline has been setup that gives you information on applying for this program and answers any
question concerning eligibility, facilities obligated to provide services and filing complaints. For more info.
on Hill-Burton contact:
Office of Health Facilities
Health Resources and Services Administration
Dept. of Health and Human Services
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 11-03
Rockville, MD 20857
1-800-638-0742
1-800-492-0359 (in MD)
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Programs for which CMS is responsible include Medicare, Medicaid, State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), HIPAA, and CLIA.
State by State Medicaid Offices
Lions Sight & Hearing Foundation
Helps people afflicted with sight and hearing impairments whether they are affiliated with Lions Clubs, or not.
Vision USA
Helps people by providing basic eye health and vision care services free of charge to the many uninsured low-income people and their families who have no other means of obtaining care.
MERCY MEDICAL AIRLIFT
MMA's mission is to facilitate a charitable means of long distance medical air transport for all medically indigent, low-income and financially vulnerable patients in our society thereby ensuring equal access to distant specialized medical treatment or to appropriate facilities and settings for continuing care.
National Patient Air Transport
Provides information about all forms of charitable, long-distance medical air transportation and provides referrals to all appropriate sources of help available in the national charitable medical air transportation network. Our Goal is "....to ensure that no financially-needy patient is denied access to distant specialized medical evaluation, diagnosis or treatment for lack of a means of medical air transportation."