Thank you from the Pollock family.
I was in the middle of radiation and chemo when job and family services said my wife and I made too much money for me to receive Medicaid. We actually were under the bottom allowance by a hundred and forty dollars. Luckily my wife asked the doctors at the James cancer clinic in Columbus Ohio, right before I started treatment,what would happen if I lost my insurance during treatment. They told us they would never turn me away and they didn’t,but we had to pay cash for my prescriptions in July, and everything I’m on cost over a thousand dollars. My wife and I are on a fixed income and we have bills I never thought at the age of 53 I wouldn’t be working I love working and have always I don’t make mansion money but I averaged about eighty thousand a year at work and about twenty grand in the winter on unemployment. My job is seasonal.I’ve been fighting cancer for about a year and a half and we just didn’t foresee us fighting this at my age. Anyway my wife broke her back in 2012 she worked at UPS she did work her way back to work but she was only able to work a few more years and she hurt her back again. Under her retirement we didn’t get to keep our insurance. It was ok because she got Medicare with her retirement and disability even though she worked there twenty seven years. I worked and had insurance through my job since 2018 then when I got sick I couldn’t afford the insurance but it was ok because I qualified for Medicaid until we moved from Buckeye Lake back to Columbus, and Franklin County is saying we make too much with just my wife’s income and we are actually under the bottom number by 140.00 dollars a month. At any rate the hospital got me in touch with this company that we never had Herd of called MINDSET. I talked to the interviewer on the fifth of July and she come to our home on the eighth of July. She was kind and courteous none-judgmental and actually pleasant to be around. After about five minutes of her being in the house,it just didn’t feel like I was speaking to a stranger. The interview took a couple hours and she made sure I understood everything she was doing every step of the way. When she was finished she told me to give forty five to sixty days, and I will know if I have insurance or not based on me and my income alone. Well I’m here to tell you I received a call on August 1st letting me know that as of July 31st I had my insurance back. Twenty two days and I now have my insurance back, not only that but it also helped my SS-I check get fast tracked I will receive a disability check the fourth Wednesday of August. MINDSET has been a Godsend they have taken a tone of wait off my shoulders. It’s flipping stressful to be going through Cancer and not knowing if we were going to be able to afford my medication or were we going to have to start rotating bills to be able to get meds. Trust me it’s hard enough fighting cancer with out worrying about being able to get my medicine!! Thank you MINDSET. You’re amazing!!!!!!
Date of experience: July 07, 2024