Linda LaChance was recently diagnosed with breast cancer in June 2015. She came to our patient assistant program because she was a self-insured patient. Upon filling out various foundation applications to help Ms. LaChance with opportunity to afford her chemotherapy medications, Ms. LaChance was extended out the offer to apply for Florida Medicaid. Ms. LaChance is a very prideful woman who is concerned about other patients who are worse than her, so she politely declined Medicaid assistance stating that she was going to give it her best effort to continue to work even if it meant only working part time. Ms. LaChance receives weekly chemotherapy and the cost of her therapy treatment is exorbitant. However; with the utilization of our Cancer
