Medical Care Expense Assistance

The mission of the Income Support Division (ISD) is to relieve, minimize or eliminate poverty and to make available certain services for eligible low-income individuals and families through statewide programs of financial assistance, food assistance, employment assistance, and training services.

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The Developmental Disabilities Supports Division (DDSD) provides an array of services that are available to children and adults with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities and their families. Funds are available based on legislative appropriation from the State General Funds. There may be waiting lists for these services due to the limited availability of these funds. SGF services are available to individuals who are not currently served through one of the Medicaid Waiver Programs. They provide respite services, residential services, and day services.

CMS offers medical services through multidisciplinary pediatric specialty clinics, private providers and public agencies. Diagnostic medical services, information and referral, case management and pre-school developmental evaluations are also available, regardless of income.

Service Include:

• Medical Management- may include payment for diagnostic services, hospitalizations, physician’s services, and some therapies.
• Multidisciplinary Pediatric Specialty Clinics- including asthma, cleft palate, genetic, metabolic, nephrology, neurology, and endocrinology clinics
• Care Coordination
• Transition Planning for Youth with Special Health Care needs
  Newborn Genetic Screening and Follow-up & Newborn Hearing Screening and Follow-up

Presbyterian Centennial Care provides basic benefits, plus extra value-added benefits. It is funded in part under a contract with the State of New Mexico. The plan includes physical health, behavioral health, and long-term care services. Benefits can include Medisafe Medication Reminder, Traditional Medicine Value Added Service, baby benefit new mother program, and more.

Blue Cross Community Centennial Plan is a health insurance plan that is part of New Mexico's Medicaid program. Plans include medical benefits, drug coverage, dental and vision care, behavioral health, transportation and long term care. Value added services include physical health services, maternity services, and behavior health services. Home meal delivery, Native American Traditional Healing and Wellness, remote monitoring program and respite bed are offered for under physical health service.

Medicare is health insurance for individuals who are age 65 and older, as well as certain younger people with disabilities, permanent kidney failure, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Typically Medicare covers some, but not all medical and long-term care costs. There are often co-pays and premiums required.

Medicare.gov Live Chat is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except for some federal holidays.

Assists children with hearing loss to achieve improved communication. Provides financial assistance for hearing aids, enclosed caption converters for television, tactile units, FM units (into which a hearing aid is plugged for amplification), computers to assist deaf children in communicating, etc.

Provides funding to individual children with health-related needs when insurance and other financial resources have been exhausted. Supports several mission-based programs designed to make a difference in the lives of individuals in our own community and around the world.

Provides flights for cancer patients and bone marrow donors and recipients that are traveling to and from nationally recognized cancer treatment centers within the United States and Canada.

Provides, information and support for parenteral nutrition consumers (HPN or home IV-fed patients) to improve their health and quality of life. Also offers a national list of Donated Equipment and Supplies and virtual support groups.

Provides long term care and a better quality of life for children with cancer and children in need, their families and communities, through financial assistance, education, medical support, therapeutic play and outreach care programs.

Services Include:

• Educational Scholarships for children with cancer
• Free Sports, Arts & Equine Therapy Programs
• Financial support: Emergency, Basic Living, Life Enhancing & Life Saving expenses included.

Provides assistance programs to help patients obtain life-saving or life-sustaining medication they could not otherwise afford. Programs provide medication, financial assistance with insurance premiums and co-pays, diagnostic testing assistance, and travel assistance for clinical trials.

Miracle-Ear® is committed to helping underserved people with hearing loss and giving them the gift of sound. Committed to excellent products, follow-up care and service.

Provides new high quality hearing aids. Each person receives: two hearing aids, custom ear molds and one year limited service. After an application fee (see Tier I and II on website) the only expenses are the cost of the hearing evaluation and batteries. These costs are not paid to HAH.

Dedicated to giving the gifts of hearing and speech; providing medical and surgical treatment, hearing technologies, speech and hearing rehabilitation, and educational support.

Grants fund effective treatments, assessments and needed life supports. Quarterly deadlines, typically $100 - $5000 awards. See website for guidelines. In addition, ACT Today! SOS for immediate and imperative needs, and ACT Today! for Military Families

Dedicated to funding in-hospital life saving medical treatment and surgeries for those who do not have medical insurance, and for which no other financial resources are available.

Application on website.

A locator tool allows cancer patients and oncology professionals to search for fertility preservation services in their area, and to submit referrals or request appointments through a secure online system.

Provides health information, education, financial assistance, advocacy, and resources for kidney patients and health care professionals in English and Spanish. Services include disease/disability information, medical care expense assistance, and internet information. Programs for children include the Summer Enrichment Program and the annual Calendar Kids Art Contest.COVID-19 UPDATE: Following all CDC and state guidelines.

• Medical Care Expense Assistance
• Internet Information Resources
• Disease/Disability Information

• Social Security Numbers
• Social Security Fraud Reporting
• Social Security Disability Insurance
• Medicare
• Social Security Burial Benefits
• SSI
• Social Security Retirement Benefits
• Social Security Survivors Insurance

• Health/Disability Related Support Groups
• Medical Care Expense Assistance
• Disease/Disability Information

A public service program of the American Academy of Ophthalmology providing eye care through volunteer ophthalmologists (Eye M.D.) at no cost to those who qualify. A comprehensive medical eye exam is provided and care for anything diagnosed at the initial visit for up to one year at no out-of-pocket cost for the physician's services.COVID-19 UPDATE: Providing urgent care related to the pandemic at this time and temporarily unable to provide new referrals for programs. Check back often. In the interim, visit 'Resources' page for information on free or discounted medication, discounted eye glasses, etc.

• Eye Care
• Eye Screening

Helps patients suffering from chronic medical conditions who have limited financial means get access to the medications they need, pay insurance co-pays, transportation, premiums, and find the insurance coverage that's right for them.

COVID-19 UPDATE: All services are available via telephone and online. Please call with any questions.

• Medical Care Expense Assistance

• Incidental Medical Expense Assistance
• Medical Care Expense Assistance

• Eye Screening

Services locator website.

Managed by the American Optometry Association (AOA) Foundation and The Vision Care Institute.

Provides incidental medical expense assistance through free flights for children who are in need of life-changing medical care that is not found in the local communities. Adults, families, or caregivers may accompany child.COVID-19 UPDATE: Temporarily relaxing financial need requirements. Anyone facing any degree of financial uncertainty, please call for a personalized assessment.

• Incidental Medical Expense Assistance

The National Children's Cancer Society (NCCS) provides emotional, financial, and educational support to children with cancer and their families and survivors. NCCS provides a Family Support Program, Transportation Assistance Fund, and Emergency Assistance Fund to support families throughout the United States during their child's cancer treatment.

• Incidental Medical Expense Assistance

• Non-Emergency Medical Transportation
• Mercy Transportation

• Glasses/Contact Lenses

• Specialized Information and Referral
• Medical Care Expense Assistance

Provides medical grants to help children gain access to health-related services not covered, or not fully covered, by their parents' commercial health insurance plan. Children must be 16 years old or younger while meeting other grant requirements.

• Medical Care Expense Assistance

See additional criteria and exclusions on website.

Offers medical care expense assistance help and hope to underinsured people with chronic or life-threatening illnesses for whom cost limits access to breakthrough medical treatments.COVID-19 UPDATE: Following all CDC and State guidelines.

• Medical Care Expense Assistance

A grant program for equipment and services for mobility, independence and social inclusion; communication equipment and services, education, self-esteem for children and children's organizations; life-saving medical equipment, healthcare and well-being for individual children and children's health organizations. Programs: Freedom, Life-Saving, Future

Helps patients and families facing high medical out-of-pocket costs by providing financial assistance for their copayments, coinsurance, deductibles, and other health-related expenses. More than 60 funds, each of which covers the FDA-approved medications that treat a specific disease, covering a wide range of serious and chronic diseases.

Provides gift certificates, through a network of community partners, lto children in need to receive no-cost eye care and glasses from a local doctor.

• Eye Screening
• Glasses/Contact Lenses

Provides every aspect of cleft care that is needed at no cost to families.

The National Academy of Social Insurance is a non-profit, non-partisan organization made up of the national experts on social insurance. Its mission is to advance solutions to challenges facing the nation by increasing public understanding of how social insurance contributes to economic security. Social insurance encompasses broad-based systems that help workers and their families pool risks to avoid loss of income due to retirement, death, disability, or unemployment and ensure access to health care. They provide information on social security, Medicare, workers' compensation and disability, unemployment insurance, and long-term services and supports.