Safety Net Program provides assistance to dialysis patients who are in urgent need of help with expenses related to treatment and who have exhausted all other means of financial support. The maximum amount of a Safety Net Grant is $100. Dialysis patients should work with their social workers to submit an application to AKF for these grants. Safety Net Grants Cover: *Treatment-specific expenses such as transportation costs to reach dialysis; over-the-counter medicines, medication co-payments, kidney donor expenses and other necessities such as dentures. Grants also cover medications, nutritional products, and durable medical supplies. The American Kidney Fund has contracted with ECHO, a mail order pharmacy, to provide medications and supplies at discount prices, thereby increasing the purchasing power of patients' grants. *Disaster relief assistance when catastrophic events strike dialysis patients' communities. This program provides funds to help patients replace medications, food and household items and pay for other necessities lost because of disasters such as flooding, hurricanes, etc. *The cost of dialysis while traveling. Patients or facilities may be reimbursed for the 20% of treatment costs not covered by Medicare or any other source for emergency transient dialysis. Grants are limited to travel necessitated by death or serious illness in the family or for the purpose of kidney transplant workup only. Important note to dialysis center social workers: AKF is no longer accepting or processing outdated versions of program applications. All out of date applications will be returned. In order to insure timely application processing, please download an up-to-date version of the program applications today.