Access Fund · Access Fund · your seat

Reading room, blind.

How a patient on the committee would read a request blind: no name, and no request number.

A patient sitting on the fund committee declares no conflict, then reads a request blind: category, payee, amount, the paper, one sentence — no name, no request number until decided.

Nothing on this page is an offer

The Access Fund has no balance, no committee, no payee and no way to ask. These pages are the design — the flow, the criteria and the committee process — with every pool, cap, award and payout figure absent or marked illustrative. A preview banner says a feature does not work yet; it cannot disclaim a financial commitment to someone who is ill and out of money, so this notice does.
Conflict-of-interest declaration · logged as a declaration, not a reason

I do not know who asked, and the payee is not my clinician, my pharmacy or my employer. If either is false the read passes to an alternate.

I declare it, and readpreviewPass to an alternatepreview

A request, sealed

  • Category

    —

  • Payee

    —

  • Amount on the invoice

    —

  • The paper

    —

  • Their sentence

    —

The category, the payee, the amount, the invoice or denial, and one optional sentence. Never the name. Never the record. Not even the request number, until the decision is in.

Eligibility · arithmetic, already run

  • Inside the four categoriesnot run
  • Under the cap, with the date it comes backnot run
  • No award to this payee for this thing inside 90 daysnot run
  • The payee takes a direct paymentnot run
  • The denial was appealed, or the reason given — a fact, never a groundnot run

What you are deciding

  • Award, whole or partialChoosedesigned
  • Ask one question — the person answers onceChoosedesigned
  • Decline on one of four grounds, with the sentence written outChoosedesigned

The four grounds, and no fifth

Outside the four categories
A supplement, a second first visit, a test that was covered, travel.
Over the cap
Say the arithmetic: the total it would reach, against the cap, and the date it comes back.
Payee will not take a direct payment
The fund never pays a person. Say what the payee said.
Duplicate inside 90 days
Same payee, same thing, same record. Name the earlier award’s date.

Each read is due 72 hours after assignment; a reminder goes at 48. The request is still promised a decision in seven days.

Load across seats · this week

Requests are assigned to the three least-loaded readers who did not read the person’s last request. The bars would show it; nothing has been assigned.