UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation is Seeking Child Medical Grant Applications from Kentucky Families

We’ve learned about this great opportunity for Kentucky families.  

If you need financial assistance for child medical care costs, you can apply for a UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation (UHCCF) grant. You do NOT need to have UnitedHealthcare Insurance to be eligible. 

Here’s some basic information:

• Grants help pay for a child’s health care
  treatments, services or equipment not covered, or not fully covered, by a commercial
  health insurance plan.
• Families can apply for grants at www.UHCCF.org
• Foundation aims to award 20,000 grants by
  Jan. 1, 2020

In Kentucky, UHCCF awarded more than 210
grants since 2013 and is encouraging more Kentucky families to apply this year.

Qualifying families can receive up to
$5,000 per grant with a lifetime maximum of $10,000 per child, to help pay for
their child’s health care treatments, services or equipment not covered, or not
fully covered, by their commercial health insurance plan.

Families frequently use UHCCF grants
to help pay for treatments associated with medical conditions such as cancer,
spina bifida, muscular dystrophy, diabetes, hearing loss, autism, cystic
fibrosis, Down syndrome, ADHD and cerebral palsy. For example, grants have been
used for physical, occupational and speech therapy, counseling services,
surgeries, prescriptions, wheelchairs, orthotics, eyeglasses and hearing
aids. 

Parents or legal guardians are
encouraged to apply today at www.UHCCF.org.

To be eligible for a grant, a child
must be 16 years of age or younger. Families must meet economic guidelines,
reside in the United States and have a commercial health insurance plan. Grants
are available for medical expenses families have incurred 60 days prior to the
date of application as well as for ongoing and future medical needs. Families
do not need to have insurance through UnitedHealthcare to be eligible.