Our nonprofit can provide financial assistance for patients recovering from COVID through fundraising, unlocking greater support for patients’ long-term care needs.
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For millions of people worldwide, COVID-19 and long COVID have evolved from a global pandemic into a highly personal lifelong struggle to regain health, independence, mobility, and peace.
If you or someone you care about is living with long COVID, you’ve likely already encountered some of the surprising financial obstacles that can stand in the way of quality care and a full life. From emergency expenses to lifelong care needs, long COVID can be financially debilitating for the average individual or family.
In this post, learn about the average costs associated with long COVID and COVID-19 recovery, including what insurance may not cover, and find out how to start a verified COVID fundraising campaign to get help from your community.
How Much Does Long COVID Cost to Treat?
In one year, one long-hauler COVID patient’s insurer was billed $1,071,187.36.
As CNBC reported in 2022, the individual cost of living with long COVID was projected to be between $3,700 to $14,000 per month.
If COVID impacts an individual’s ability to work or leads to the need for emergency hospitalizations, breathing care, or a lung transplant, costs will skyrocket.
Specialized treatments for specific COVID-related symptoms may not be covered at all by insurance, which can leave patients on the hook for thousands of dollars per month.
Common Long COVID Costs
As with many other rare diseases and chronic illnesses, long COVID patients will often face a wide range of expenses just to meet their basic needs for safe lodging, effective symptom management, mobility, therapy, and specialized care.
Here are a few of the costs insurance typically does not fully cover for a diagnosis like long COVID:
- Health insurance premiums, deductibles, and co-payments
- Medications
- Medical travel expenses for therapy or treatment
- Relocation or moving expenses due to diagnosis (such as in the case of moving to be closer to a therapy center or hospital for treatment)
- Temporary housing due to medical relocation
- Mileage, tolls, and parking fees for visits to therapy center or hospital
- Home health care services and caregiving
- Possible need for a lung transplant, which comes with substantial additional out-of-pocket costs and may require fundraising to be listed for transplant
Financial Assistance for Patients Living with Long COVID
Help Hope Live offers financial support for COVID patients via fundraising. Through community-based fundraising, our nonprofit organization is dedicated to helping those in need to raise funds for medical treatment costs associated with COVID.
How Does COVID Support Fundraising Work?
Fundraising with our nonprofit works as follows:
- Submit a campaign request for assistance at helphopelive.org/get-started/apply
- You’ll be paired with a Client Services Coordinator
- Your Coordinator will provide you with one-on-one fundraising help, including personalized fundraising materials and guidance on how to rally your community, share your story on social media, reach out to the press, plan in-person or virtual fundraising events, and much more
How Is Help Hope Live Different from GoFundMe?
Help Hope Live differs from GoFundMe by:
- Verifying your medical need for complete donor confidence
- Enabling tax-deductible donations
- Providing one-on-one fundraising help
- Managing all funds raised to protect your state-based benefits (funds raised are not considered personal income/assets to you)
We are a nonprofit with more than four decades of fundraising experience and a 4-star Charity Navigator rating.
Does Community-Based Fundraising Work?
"Donations are tax deductible, unlike many other platforms. We are much more comfortable with that."
Pharmacist Jim Teltschik and his family learned he would need a lung transplant due to the damage caused by COVID-19. Their medical professionals and case managers recommended that they start a fundraising campaign with Help Hope Live to assist with the out-of-pocket expenses associated with Jim’s recovery and lung transplant journey. They have raised more than $28,000 and continue to fundraise.
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"When we started with Help Hope Live, the numbers we were receiving were a bit frightening."
Jamie Azar‘s family was overjoyed when she was finally able to breathe on her own again following intensive COVID-19 care and recovery. However, Jamie’s short- and long-term out-of-pocket burdens remain significant. Documenting each step of her journey on her Campaign Page to share updates with the community, Jamie’s family continues to fundraise with Help Hope Live for all the COVID recovery costs insurance refuses to cover.
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Our success as a fundraising site for medical bills wouldn’t be possible if it weren’t for our outstanding partners.
Permobil
The Do Gooders
The Esther & Pedro Rosenblatt Foundation
Lindo Foundation
Costco
Foxwynd Foundation
SureHands Lift & Care
Stout
Kennedy Krieger International Center for Spinal Cord Injury
Jefferson Health
Independence Blue Cross
DigiStream
Glenmede
Brandywine Realty Trust
United Access
Gift of Life Howie’s House
Transplant Alliance Foundation
Bridge to Mobility
Reeve Foundation
ADT Medical Alert
Feeldom
Smart Adaptive Clothing
Patti + Ricky
Reboundwear
BILLY Footwear
Ex N’ Flex
WheelEEZ
Active Hands
Ultimate Workout and Recovery
VitaGlide
Cherry Wheels
The LapSnap
Spinergy
Vapor Wheels
Wheelie Cool Stuff
Frog Legs
Rollx Vans
Global Genes Alliance
Firstrust Bank
Abilities Expo
Prelude Solutions
KYW Newsradio 1060
Walgreens Specialty Pharmacy
AMS VANS
Vantage Mobility International
