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For information on financial assistance resources, you can visit the Financial Assistance Resources module at CancerFinances.org. You can then pick from the different categories of financial assistance, to find organizations that may provide financial help to you. Think creatively. For example, if you cannot find anything to help with your medical bills, you may qualify for utility assistance and shift the money you had dedicated to utilities to your medical bills.
Ga. Code Ann. §33-24- 59.
(Current as of 8/2022)
Georgia Clinical Trial Agreement – The Georgia Cancer Coalition, a nonprofit corporation, has a voluntary agreement among insurers including: Aetna, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, CIGNA, Coventry, Humana, Kaiser, OneHealth and United Healthcare to provide coverage of routine patient care costs for patients enrolled in Phase I, II, III or IV cancer clinical trials. In addition, the insurers must also pay for enrollees’ nationally recommended cancer detection screenings.
The treating physician must recommend the patient after it has been determined that the potential for a meaningful benefit exists. Second, the trial must either: (1) involve a drug that is currently exempt under federal regulations from a new drug application or (2) be approved by one of the following: (a) NIH, (b) NIH cooperative group or center, (c) U.S. Dept. of Defense, (d) U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, (e) U.S. F.D.A or (f) any state IRB belonging to an accredited medicine, nursing, or pharmacy school.
(Current as of 07/2011)