To The Person Looking for Ways to Pay for Daughter's Surgery

[Guest guest]

Hi all: Well, forgive my addled brain here....but last week there

was someone who posted that they had just basically gotten their

daughter convinced that she could benefit from a certain

surgery...only to find out that their health insurance wouldn't pay

for it. She was looking at possible fund raisers, etc. I had

mentioned the Hill Burton Act here in RI but was looking at some

patient advocacy sites and found the name/number, etc. for the Hill

Burton site. It is:

Hill-Burton Uncompensated Services Hotline

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)

Telephone: or (land residents)

The Hill-Burton program ensures that obligated health facilities

across the United States provide free or reduced-cost medical

services to uninsured and underinsured people who meet eligibility

criteria. Call for a listing of facilities and eligibility

requirements.