Know Your Rights
A Handbook for Patients with Chronic Illness
By Jennifer C. Jaff, Esq.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS provides easy to understand explanations of legal issues facing patients, and trains readers - patients, spouses, families, friends, medical providers - how to navigate the system.
The 2012 Edition is fully updated. A preview of the table of contents is here.
The GOAL is to empower patients to access all of the rights, benefits and protections to which they are entitled, including but not limited to the following:
• How to get your own medical records.
• How to get and keep health insurance.
• How to get free prescriptions.
• How to get health insurance coverage or financial assistance for particular treatments, drugs, and/or therapies.
• How to get private disability insurance coverage.
• How to get Social Security Disability Income.
• How to assert your rights under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
• How to assert your rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
• How to ensure that schools accommodate students with chronic illnesses.
• How to obtain housing accommodations.
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Advocacy for Patients
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Farmington, CT 06032
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