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Financial assistance for MG patients – Sept 30 2022
Are medical costs overwhelming you? These programs may provide relief. Click the links to learn about who’s eligible and what each program covers.
Status (open/ waitlisting/ closed) is current as of September 30, 2022:
The Assistance Fund is accepting new enrollments for individuals who have myasthenia gravis. This program helps with out-of-pocket medical costs.
The National Organization for Rare Diseases (NORD)‘s financial assistance program is temporarily waitlisting MG patients. (In other words, get on the waitlist.) NORD helps with the cost of insurance premiums, office visits, medications, and other for myasthenia gravis patients. Click here for waitlisting updates.
The PAN Foundation fund for myasthenia gravis patients is currently closed, but you can sign up to be notified when the program resumes support for MG patients.
Conquer MG’s Patient Assistance Program has supported MG patients since 2014. Medical costs up to $1,000 may be reimbursed if you have an MG diagnosis; live in Illinois, Indiana, or Wisconsin; and have financial need. Applications for 2022 are being accepted.
Other Resources
NeedyMeds is dedicated to helping people who cannot afford medicine or health care costs.
RxAssist offers a database of patient assistance programs, as well as practical tools, news, and articles so that health care professionals and patients can find the information they need.
The Medical Assistance Tool is a search engine tool sponsored by PhRMA; it can help you find many of the patient assistance resources that the biopharmaceutical industry offers.
MG Activities of Daily Living (MG-ADL) Scale
With a disease like myasthenia that fluctuates from day to day and even more from month to month, it can be challenging to get a clear picture of a person’s illness. Your doctor can assess your myasthenia with several different tracking tools. One of these measures is called the MG Activities of Daily Living scale, or the MG-ADL.
The MG-ADL scale assesses the impact of MG on your daily functions. Physicians use this tool to score a patient’s MG symptoms based on the patient’s recall of symptoms during the prior week. A person’s score can range from zero (normal) to 24 (most severe).
You can use this tool as well. Click here for a downloadable copy.
