Simplify the Search for Financial Assistance with FundFinder

By: Ayesha Azam, Senior Director of Medical Affairs, Patient Access Network (PAN) Foundation

We often hear that the road to financial assistance is difficult to navigate. Thousands of people living with life-threatening, chronic and rare diseases depend on financial assistance from charitable foundations to start and stay on treatment. These foundations provide a much-needed safety net for people—including those living with Hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS.

Until recently, people looking for charitable assistance had to manually monitor the status of disease funds across multiple organizations to find an available program. This placed an additional burden on patients, their families and healthcare teams.

To ease this burden, my colleagues at the Patient Access Network (PAN) Foundation developed FundFinder, a web-based app that streamlines the search for financial assistance by instantly notifying users when a program opens.

In addition to the PAN Foundation, FundFinder tracks information on program availability from the websites of seven other charitable foundations: CancerCare, Good Days, HealthWell, Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, Patient Advocate Foundation, Patient Services, Inc. and The Assistance Fund. The app is updated hourly to provide the most up-to-date information.

Users can access the free app from any web browser, tablet or smartphone by visiting fundfinder.panfoundation.org. After creating an account, users may subscribe to email or text message notifications and select specific disease funds to follow. When a followed fund opens, users will receive an alert indicating which foundation has available funding.

At PAN, we understand that a diagnosis often puts priorities in perspective. FundFinder helps simplify the search for financial assistance so patients can spend more time focusing on their health and wellbeing. I invite you to join the 4,500 FundFinder users who are saving time for what matters most. Sign up for FundFinder today.




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