News in Brief Do your pediatric patients need money for treatments? These grants can help UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation seeks to award more than 2,000 grants for children facing health-related challenges. March 28, 2017Tuesday AOA Staff Contact AOA Staff Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Do you have a pediatric patient whose family may need assistance paying for medical expenses? The UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation awards medical grants to help children gain access to health-related services that are not covered, or not fully covered, by their family’s commercial health insurance plan. Some examples include paying for hearing aids, counseling, wheelchairs or speech therapy. Related Applicants don’t need to be UnitedHealthcare members—any commercial health insurance plan member is eligible to apply. Grants are available throughout the year to children ages 16 and younger who are facing health-related challenges and whose families meet certain financial criteria. Qualifying families can receive up to $5,000 annually per child (and up to a $10,000 lifetime maximum) to help cover the cost of medical treatments, equipment and services. Families can apply for grants at UHCCF.org/apply. If you would like to receive UHCCF brochures for your practice, please email customerservice@uhccf.org. UHCCF hopes to award more than 2,000 grants in 2017. For more information, visit UHCCF.org. More in Newsbriefs TouroCOM opens new school in Great Falls, Montana The new campus is Touro University’s third college of osteopathic medicine and the first nonprofit medical school in Montana. “Operation Nightingale” fraud scheme alert: Bogus nursing credentials sold to thousands of aspiring nurses It was recently discovered that a scheme, nicknamed “Operation Nightingale,” offered aspiring nurses the opportunity to purchase fake nursing degree diplomas and transcripts. Previous articleJAOA publishes statistics on AOA board certification Next articleDOs teach OMM techniques in Madagascar
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