Financial, Insurance, and Legal Information
Information about getting financial help, insurance coverage, support organizations, and end-of-life planning.
On this page:
Getting Financial Help for Healthcare
Insurance Information
Information about Legal Healthcare Decisions
Preparing for the End of Life
Getting Financial Help for Healthcare
- National Organizations That Offer Cancer-Related Services
A database that includes contact information for organizations that provide cancer patients and their families with financial and emotional support, advocacy, and information. The database may be searched by type of cancer and keyword. - Resources for Financial Assistance for Patients and Their Families
A database of organizations that provides cancer patients and their families with resources for financial assistance. The database may be searched by type of financial assistance provided and keyword. Contains contact information for the organizations. - Cost of Clinical Trials
A collection of material about studies showing that patient care costs for clinical trials are not appreciably higher than costs for patients not enrolled in trials.
Insurance Information
- Clinical Trials and Insurance Coverage
Information about insurance coverage of the patient care costs associated with clinical trials. - Medicare Coverage of Clinical Trials
A collection of material about Medicare's policy of covering routine patient care costs associated with clinical trials. - States That Require Health Plans to Cover Patient Care Costs in Clinical Trials
A searchable list and map of U.S. states that require health plans to pay for the patient care costs associated with clinical trials. Key provisions are summarized.
Information about Legal Healthcare Decisions
- Transitional Care Planning (PDQ®)
[ patient ] [ health professional ]
Expert-reviewed information summary about planning for transitions in level of care (e.g., inpatient to outpatient) for individuals who have cancer. - Advance Directives
A fact sheet that explains informed consent and end-of-life issues during advanced or terminal disease.
Preparing for the End of Life
- Last Days of Life (PDQ®)
[ patient ] [ health professional ]
Expert-reviewed information summary about care during the last days to last hours of life, including common symptoms, ethical dilemmas that may arise, and the role of the oncologist in caring for patients and their families during this time. - Grief, Bereavement, and Coping With Loss (PDQ®)
[ patient ] [ health professional ]
Expert-reviewed report about grief, bereavement, and feelings of loss in survivors of someone who has died of cancer. Grief in children is also discussed. - End-of-Life Care: Questions and Answers
This fact sheet answers some of the questions that many patients, their family members, and caregivers have about the end of life. - Hospice
A fact sheet about organizations that provide hospice care; it also discusses insurance coverage.
