Crushing medical bills by making hospital financial assistance known, easy, and fair.
The Challenge
Most hospitals across the United States offer financial assistance programs, often called charity care, which can reduce or eliminate hospital bills based on a patient's income. But millions of patients miss out on this help because they never learn these programs exist. And even when they do, the application process can be difficult to navigate.
The Dollar For Solution
Dollar For helps close that gap by helping patients find and apply for financial assistance through a free, simple online tool. They work directly with patients to reduce their hospital bills at no cost to them.
In addition to providing practical tools and guidance, Dollar For also advocates for legislative changes to streamline access to the estimated $14B in charity care that goes unused nationwide each year.
By combining advocacy, education, and direct support, Dollar For is making healthcare costs more fair for everyday Americans.
The problem isn't that help doesn't exist. The problem is that most people never hear about it. Dollar For closes that gap and makes hospital financial assistance work the way it was always intended to.
Why Dollar For?
Why We Committed
A single medical emergency can push a paycheck-to-paycheck family into poverty. Medical debt is the leading cause of bankruptcy in the U.S., with 1 in 5 households sharing in the more than $220B owed nationwide. We believe Dollar For's approach just makes sense: they make it easy for patients to unlock charity care resources that already exist at hospitals. They combine scalable technology, live human support, and collaborations with government and industry into a solution that can change one small part of American healthcare for the better.
George
Lifesaving surgery left a Nevada man with overwhelming medical bills, until relief finally came.
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Jarrett
When the insurer retroactively canceled his coverage after cancer surgery, Dollar For helped get immediate relief.
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Mikela
Despite working in healthcare, they had never heard of hospital financial assistance. Dollar For got their bill zeroed out.
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