Legal services ยท Disability Rights Legal Center
Cancer Legal Resource Center and Cancer Justice helpline
A legal helpline and resource library for people with cancer, run by the Disability Rights Legal Center. Covers legal questions about insurance, work and money. Whether staff can take your case is not stated.
Know before you go
The center's pages call the program Cancer Justice; its handbook uses the older name Cancer Legal Resource Center and the same phone number. It serves people affected by cancer. The page offers a helpline for personalized support, a resource library and a Patient Legal Handbook. The handbook says the program mainly gives information and education and keeps a panel of attorneys for referrals on complicated matters. The page does not say whether staff will take your insurance case. Ask when you call.
- Cost
- Not stated
- Where
- Nationwide
- How to start
- Call the Cancer Justice helpline at 866-843-2572 or read the resource library first.
- Phone
- 866-843-2572, as printed on the provider's page
- Have ready
- The denial letter; Your plan name and the date on the notice; A short description of what you were denied
Where this comes from
- Provider
- Disability Rights Legal Center
- Source we read
- https://thedrlc.org/cancer-justice-resources/
- Date we read it
- . This is not a fresh check.
- Date the provider printed
- Not displayed
- What we checked
- We read the provider's public page. We have not verified availability, eligibility or outcomes for any individual.
Other starting points
- Program or service
1-800-MEDICARE: talk to a person about Medicare
The Medicare phone line and live chat, open all day every day. Staff can point you to the right step for a complaint, and can pass an unresolved complaint to the Medicare Beneficiary Ombudsman.
From Medicare (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
- Program or service
American Cancer Society 24-hour helpline
A phone and chat line staffed around the clock by cancer information specialists who answer questions and connect you to services. It is an information and referral line, not an appeals service.
From American Cancer Society
- Program or service
An Arm and a Leg: First Aid Kit
An archive of articles and starter packs from the podcast An Arm and a Leg, including a starter pack on what to do if you are in collections for medical debt. General reporting on health care costs, not appeal steps.
From An Arm and a Leg