Help with healthcare costs for breast cancer
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 a breast cancer health equity fund, as well as a metastatic breast cancer 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 breast cancer, 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 health insurance 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
Quick eligibility checker
- 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.
- Abraxane (Paclitaxel Protein-Bound)
- Adriamycin (Doxorubicin Hydrochloride)
- Afinitor Disperz (Everolimus)
- ALYMSYS (Bevacizumab)
- Anastrozole (Anastrozole)
- Arimidex (Anastrozole)
- Aromasin (Exemestane)
- Avastin (Bevacizumab)
- Avzivi (Bevacizumab)
- Beizray (Docetaxel)
- Capecitabine (Capecitabine)
- Carboplatin (Carboplatin)
- Cisplatin (Cisplatin)
- Cyclophosphamide (Cyclophosphamide)
- Datroway (Datopotamab Deruxtecan)
- Docetaxel (Docetaxel)
- Docivyx (Docetaxel)
- DOXIL (Doxorubicin Hcl Pegylated Liposomal)
- Epirubicin Hcl (Epirubicin Hydrochloride)
- Eribulin Mesylate (Eribulin Mesylate)
- Everolimus (Everolimus)
- Exemestane (Exemestane)
- Fareston (Toremifene)
- Faslodex (Fulvestrant)
- Femara (Letrozole)
- Fluorouracil (Fluorouracil)
- Frindovyx (Cyclophosphamide)
- Fulvestrant (Fulvestrant)
- Gemcitabine Hcl (Gemcitabine)
- Halaven (Eribulin Mesylate)
- Herceptin (Trastuzumab)
- Herceptin Hylecta (Trastuzumab-Hyaluronidase-Oysk)
- HERCESSI (Trastuzumab-Strf)
- Herzuma (Trastuzumab-Pkrb)
- Ibrance (Palbociclib)
- Inluriyo (Imlunestrant)
- Itovebi (Inavolisib)
- Ixempra (Ixabepilone)
- Jemperli (Dostarlimab-Gxly)
- JOBEVNE (Bevacizumab)
- Kadcyla (Ado-Trastuzumab Emtansine)
- Kadcyla (Trastuzumab Deruxtecan-Nxki)
- Kanjinti (Trastuzumab-Anns)
- Keytruda (Pembrolizumab)
- Kisqali (Ribociclib Succinate)
- KISQALI FEMARA CO-PACK (Ribociclib And Letrozole)
- Lapatinib (Lapatinib Ditosylate)
- Letrozole (Letrozole)
- Leuprolide Acetate (Leuprolide Acetate)
- Leuprolide Depot (Leuprolide Acetate)
- Lupron Depot-Ped (Leuprolide Acetate)
- Lutrate Depot (Leuprolide Acetate)
- Lynparza (Olaparib)
- Margenza (Margetuximab-Cmkb)
- Megestrol Acetate (Megestrol Acetate)
- Methotrexate-Nacl (Methotrexate Sodium)
- Methotrexate Sodium (Methotrexate Sodium)
- MVASI (Bevacizumab)
- Navelbine (Vinorelbine)
- Nerlynx (Neratinib)
- Ogivri (Trastuzumab-Dkst)
- Ontruzant (Trastuzumab-Dttb)
- Orserdu (Elacestrant)
- Paclitaxel (Paclitaxel)
- Paclitaxel Protein-Bound (Paclitaxel)
- Paraplatin (Carboplatin)
- Perjeta (Pertuzumab)
- Phesgo (Pertuzumab And Trastuzumab-Hy)
- Piqray (Alpelisib)
- Rozlytrek (Entrectinib)
- Soltamox (Tamoxifen Citrate)
- Talzenna (Talazoparib Tosylate)
- Tamoxifen Citrate (Tamoxifen Citrate)
- Tecentriq (Atezolizumab)
- Tecentriq (Atezolizumab-Hyaluronidase)
- Tepadina (Thiotepa)
- Tepylute (Thiotepa)
- Thiotepa (Thiotepa)
- Toremifene (Toremifene)
- Trazimera (Trastuzumab-Qyyp)
- Trodelvy (Sacituzumab Govitecan-Hziy)
- Truqap (Capivasertib)
- Tukysa (Tucatinib)
- Tykerb (Lapatinib)
- Vegzelma (Bevacizumab-Adcd)
- Verzenio (Abemaciclib)
- Vijoice (Alpelisib)
- Vitrakvi (Larotrectinib)
- Xeloda (Capecitabine)
- Zirabev (Bevacizumab)
- Zoladex (Goserelin Acetate)
- Zoledronic Acid (Zoledronic Acid)
About the disease
Breast cancer is a cancer that forms in the cells of the breast. Like all forms of cancer, breast cancer cells grow in an uncontrolled way and create masses of tissue called tumors in the breast and may spread to other places in the body.
Diagnosis codes
C50.011, C50.012, C50.019, C50.021, C50.022, C50.029, C50.111, C50.112, C50.119, C50.121, C50.122, C50.129, C50.211, C50.212, C50.219, C50.221, C50.222, C50.229,
C50.311, C50.312, C50.319, C50.321, C50.322, C50.329, C50.411, C50.412, C50.419, C50.421, C50.422, C50.429, C50.511, C50.512, C50.519, C50.521, C50.522, C50.529, C50.611, C50.612, C50.619, C50.621, C50.622, C50.629, C50.811, C50.812, C50.819, C50.821, C50.822, C50.829, C50.911, C50.912, C50.919, C50.921, C50.922, C50.929, C50.A0, C50.A1, C50.A2, D05.00, D05.01, D05.02, D05.10, D05.11, D05.12
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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