Help with healthcare costs for asthma
This TotalAssist fund helps you pay for out-of-pocket healthcare costs, including medication copays, coinsurance, and deductibles, health insurance premiums, and other expenses. Check your eligibility with our quick and easy tools below. If this fund is open, apply today for an instant approval decision and use your grant funding right away. Learn how TotalAssist helps you.
TotalAssist also offers an asthma health equity fund. Please note that you cannot receive more than one grant for the same condition.
Eligibility criteria
To be eligible for this fund, you must:
- Have a confirmed diagnosis and are in treatment for asthma, or planning to begin treatment in the next 60 days, or have been in treatment in the past 6 months. This includes active surveillance of a condition
- Have government-insured coverage that covers your qualifying expenses
- Have an income at or less than 500% of the Federal Poverty Level, adjusted for your regional Cost of Living Index (COLI). What is this?
- Be a legal resident and receive treatment in the U.S. or a U.S. territory
- Be prescribed a medication or product listed in the approved medications, listed below
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- Treatment
- Insurance
- Income
Approved medications
Patient Advocate Foundation covers all the prescription medications for each diagnosis, including generic or bioequivalent drugs, that meet any of the following criteria: FDA-approved, listed in official compendia, and/or listed in published evidence-based or clinical guidelines.
- Albuterol Sulfate (Albuterol Sulfate)
- Albuterol Sulfate Hfa (Albuterol Sulfate)
- allergy relief nasal (Fluticasone Propion/Salmeterol)
- Alvesco (Ciclesonide)
- Armonair Digihaler (Fluticasone Propionate)
- Arnuity Ellipta (Fluticasone Propion/Salmeterol)
- Asmanex (Mometasone Furoate)
- Asmanex Hfa (Mometasone Furoate)
- Atrovent Hfa (Ipratropium Bromide)
- Breo Ellipta (Fluticasone Propion/Salmeterol)
- Budesonide (Budesonide)
- Cinqair (Reslizumab)
- Cortef (Hydrocortisone)
- Cortisone Acetate (Cortisone Acetate)
- Cromolyn Sodium (Cromolyn Sodium)
- Dexabliss (Dexamethasone)
- Dexamethasone (Dexamethasone)
- Dexamethasone Intensol (Dexamethasone)
- Dupixent (Dupilumab)
- ELIXOPHYLLIN (Theophylline Anhydrous)
- Eohilia (Budesonide)
- Exdensur (Depemokimab-Ulaa)
- Fasenra (Benralizumab)
- Fluticasone Furoate (Fluticasone Furoate)
- Fluticasone Propionate (Fluticasone Propion/Salmeterol)
- FLUTICASONE PROPIONATE (Fluticasone Propion/Salmeterol)
- Fluticasone Propionate (Fluticasone Propionate)
- Fluticasone Propionate Hfa (Fluticasone Propionate)
- Formoterol Fumarate Nebulizer (Formoterol Fumarate)
- Hydrocortisone (Hydrocortisone)
- Ipratropium Bromide (Ipratropium Bromide)
- Khindivi (Hydrocortisone)
- Levalbuterol (Levalbuterol)
- Levalbuterol (Levalbuterol Tartrate)
- Medrol (Methylprednisolone)
- Methylprednisolone (Methylprednisolone)
- Millipred Dp (Prednisolone)
- Montelukast Sodium (Montelukast Sodium)
- Mucinex Nasal Congestion and Allergy Relief (Fluticasone Propion/Salmeterol)
- Nucala (Mepolizumab)
- Prednisolone (Prednisolone)
- Prednisolone Sodium Phos Odt (Prednisolone Sodium Phosphate)
- Prednisolone Sodium Phosphate (Prednisolone Sodium Phosphate)
- Prednisone (Prednisone)
- Prednisone Intensol (Prednisone)
- Proair Digihaler (Albuterol Sulfate)
- Proair Respiclick (Albuterol Sulfate)
- Pulmicort (Budesonide)
- Pulmicort Flexhaler (Budesonide)
- Qvar Redihaler (Beclomethasone Dipropionate)
- Serevent Diskus (Salmeterol Xinafoate)
- Singulair (Montelukast Sodium)
- Spiriva (Tiotropium Bromide)
- Terbutaline Sulfate (Terbutaline Sulfate)
- Tezspire (Tezepelumab-Ekko)
- Theophylline Er (Theophylline Anhydrous)
- Tiotropium Bromide (Tiotropium Bromide)
- Trelegy Ellipta (Fluticasone Propion/Salmeterol)
- Ventolin HFA (Albuterol Sulfate)
- Xolair (Omalizumab)
- Xopenex HFA (Levalbuterol)
- Zafirlukast (Zafirlukast)
- Zileuton ER (Zileuton)
About the disease
Asthma, also known as bronchial asthma, is a respiratory disease characterized by airflow obstruction and airway inflammation. It is a chronic disease that affects the respiratory system.
Diagnosis codes
J45.20, J45.21, J45.22, J45.30, J45.31, J45.32, J45.40, J45.41, J45.42, J45.50, J45.51, J45.52, J45.901, J45.902, J45.909, J45.990, J45.991, J45.998,
J82.83
How to apply
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If your fund is open, apply online 24/7, or call 866-512-3861, Monday – Friday, 8:30am – 5:30pm ET.
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Answer pre-screening questions to confirm eligibility. Have your income, medication, diagnosis, and insurance information ready.
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Complete the application and get an instant approval decision. You can begin using your grant right away.
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