You focus on getting better. Let your people help with the bills.
Even with insurance, a health crisis gets expensive fast. Deductibles, out-of-network care, travel to treatment, and time off work pile up while you are just trying to get through the week. A medical fundraiser lets the people who love your family help carry the cost.
Free to start. Every dollar you raise goes to your family.
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Even with insurance, the math of a health crisis doesn't work.
These are the most common reasons families start a fundraiser for medical bills. If one of them sounds like your kitchen table right now, you are in the right place.
The meter resets every January
Deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums start over each year. A treatment plan that crosses into January can mean paying the hardest part twice.
The right doctor is out of network
When it is your health or your child's, you go where the best care is. Out-of-network specialists and second opinions come with bills insurance barely touches.
Treatment is far from home
Gas, flights, parking garages, and weeks of hotels near the hospital. Getting to the care can cost nearly as much as the care itself.
Income drops as costs spike
The patient stops working, or a spouse cuts hours to drive and care. Less money comes in exactly when more goes out.
The bills outlast the treatment
Ring the bell, come home, and the statements keep arriving for months, from providers you don't even remember meeting.
Insurance only covers part of the list
Prescriptions, equipment, home care, and follow-ups all come with copays and coinsurance. Twenty percent of a big number is still a big number.
Whatever brought you here, the money stress is making a hard season harder. That is the part your people can take off your plate.
One fundraiser, every kind of medical cost
Donations go to your family, not to the hospital, so the money can go wherever the need is. These are the costs families most often raise for.
Hospital bills and deductibles
The big statementsHospital stays, ER visits, scans, and the deductible and coinsurance attached to all of it. The envelopes with the most digits on them.
Surgery and treatment costs
The care itselfSurgeon and anesthesia fees, chemo and radiation, infusions, and the out-of-pocket share of every round and every follow-up procedure.
Travel, gas, and lodging
Getting to careFlights to the specialist, gas for the daily drive, hospital parking, and a place to sleep near the person you love.
Everyday bills during recovery
Keeping life runningRent, groceries, utilities, and childcare don't pause for illness. Many families raise as much for the household as for the hospital.
Medications and equipment
The monthly listPrescriptions and copays, plus the wheelchair, monitor, or supplies insurance only partly covers, month after month.
Ongoing therapy and follow-up care
The long roadPhysical therapy, counseling, scans, and checkups that continue long after the hospital stay ends.
A SupportNow fundraiser is not locked to a category. The money goes to your family, and your family decides what it covers, medical or not.
Everyone keeps asking how they can help. This is a real answer.
When someone you love is sick, the people around you feel helpless. Your fundraiser gives their worry somewhere to go. Every gift is someone saying you are not doing this alone.
Like asking for help
- Admitting the bills are winning
- Asking friends for money while you are already exhausted
- Feeling like you owe everyone who gives
- Being the family with the medical debt
An answer to "how can I help?"
- Telling people what your family is actually facing
- Giving the friends who keep asking a real way to show up
- Letting your community carry a piece of the load
- Being the family people are proud to stand behind
It starts with one link and your story.
Start your fundraiser in three steps
You don't need fundraising experience, and you don't have to be the one running it. Tell the story, share the link, and we handle the rest.
Tell your story
Set up takes about 10 minutes. Share what happened, what treatment looks like, and what would actually help. We guide you with prompts written for medical fundraisers.
Invite your people
Share one link with family, friends, church, coworkers, and neighbors. They have been waiting for something real to do. This is it.
Use it where it's needed
Funds go directly to your family as donations come in, no waiting to hit a goal. The hospital bill, the pharmacy, the rent. You decide.
How families actually handle big medical bills
There is real help out there for medical debt, and most of it is slower and smaller than the bills. Here is the honest picture, so you can use every tool at once.
Where the usual options fall short
- Hospital financial assistance is real, but it is slow, means-tested, and usually covers only that hospital's own bills
- Payment plans spread the pain over months, but it is still all your money
- Medical credit cards add interest to a crisis, with deferred-interest traps in the fine print
- Insurance appeals can work, but they take time and energy you may not have right now
Where families actually find relief
- Community fundraising is the biggest single source of help for most families
- An itemized bill is worth requesting every time. Errors are common, and hospitals correct them
- Charity care plus your fundraiser stack, so apply for everything you qualify for
- Your people want to give more than money. Meals, rides, and childcare count too
The same link that collects donations can organize dinner on chemo weeks.
A SupportNow fundraiser lives inside a Support Registry: money, meals, and helping hands, coordinated in one place. Supporters give what they can, sign up for what you need, and follow your updates without you retelling the story.
Donations
Every gift goes to your family
Meal signups
Dinner covered on treatment weeks
Helping hands
Rides, childcare, and yard work
Updates
Tell everyone once, in one place
Built for families, not fine print
SupportNow is the Official Family Support Platform. We help families rally support through life's hardest moments, and a health crisis is exactly that. Starting a fundraiser is free, and the money raised belongs to your family.
Start Fundraising →The money is yours
Funds go to your family as donations come in. No waiting to hit a goal, no all-or-nothing.
Fast, guided setup
About 10 minutes with prompts written for medical fundraisers, plus 1-on-1 help from a real person if you want it.
One link for supporters
Donations, meal signups, updates, and thank-yous all live in one place your people already know.
Private by default
You control what you share about diagnosis and treatment, and who sees it. Always.
Medical fundraiser FAQs
What medical costs can a fundraiser cover?
Do we have to hit our goal to get the money?
Can a friend or family member run it for us?
Will donations affect insurance or assistance programs?
Is it really free?
Ready to let your people help?
Set up takes about 10 minutes. Share one link, and the people who care about your family can start giving today.
Free to start. Keep what you raise, even if you don't reach your goal.