LUPUS FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

December 5, 2011
 

CASH FOR THE HOLIDAYS

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Final Drawing NEXT WEEK on December 15, 2011
  

 

Top Prize: Minimum of $1,200 (will increase with more purchased entries)

 

 
Other prizes: $200 worth of gift cards

  

Current Odds of winning: 1 out of 138 chances!

  

 

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Congratulations to AVA CHAN of Menlo Park, California

for winning a Google Chrome laptop in our early-bird drawing held November 15, 2011! 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Free or Discounted Hospital Care

 

If you have lupus or any other illness that requires hospital care, and you are uninsured or have high healthcare costs, you may be eligible for free or discounted hospital care. 
 

California law (Assembly Bill 774, The Hospital Fair Pricing Act of 2006) requires every hospital to offer reduced rates to uninsured and underinsured patients that may have low or moderate income, and to provide policies that clearly state the qualifications for free care hospitaland discounted payments.

 

With some exceptions, you could qualify for free or discounted care if:

1. Your income is below 350% of the Federal Poverty Level -- currently $38,115 for one person or $78,225 for a family of four, and

2. You do not have health insurance of any kind, or have health insurance but your medical costs were more than 10% of you income in the last year.

If you or someone you know needs to avail of free or discounted hospital care, more information as well as searchable list of hospital policies on this issue, can be obtained by visiting this Website.

For additional list of resources on disability, unemployment and health insurance in California, click HERE.

 

Benlysta Brown Bag
Dana Hawkes, RN, Clinical Nurse Educator with Human Genome Sciences, Inc., answers questions regarding the new lupus drug Benlysta at a brown bag session held December 1, 20011 at the lupus Foundation of Northern California.  Information about Benlysta may be obtained by visiting this website.
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