What AAM does for patients and the system around them.
Three complementary pillars: remove financial barriers, help patients navigate, and build lasting partnerships.
Financial & practical support
Removing financial and practical barriers to medical care.
AAM provides financial assistance and practical support to patients who cannot reasonably access necessary medical treatment. The level of assistance is determined individually, according to financial circumstances and available resources.
Potential activities
- Full or partial funding of medical procedures
- Financial support for specialized treatments
- Funding of essential diagnostic examinations
- Assistance with transportation and accommodation
- Support for treatment-related expenses
- Assistance with rehabilitation and necessary follow-up care
- Support for families when relevant to the patient’s medical journey
What AAM is responsible for
- Evaluating funding requests
- Establishing treatment budgets
- Coordinating co-financing with other charitable organizations
- Approving financial assistance
- Monitoring payments
- Evaluating financial impact
How money moves: whenever possible, payments are made directly to verified medical institutions or service providers rather than as unrestricted transfers to individual applicants. A dedicated patient assistance fund may eventually be established.
Medical navigation & coordination
Helping patients reach the appropriate medical expertise and treatment pathways.
AAM helps patients navigate complex healthcare systems and access specialized medical services. The aim is to reduce the complexity of finding and organizing specialized care.
Potential activities
- Identifying suitable specialized hospitals and medical centers
- Connecting patients with qualified medical professionals
- Facilitating independent second medical opinions
- Coordinating referrals between healthcare institutions
- Supporting international medical transfers when appropriate
- Assisting with administrative and logistical procedures
- Facilitating continuity of care
What AAM is responsible for
- Patient orientation
- Medical institution identification
- Referral coordination
- Medical documentation management
- Second-opinion coordination
- International patient logistics
- Follow-up organization
Clear limit: AAM does not replace medical professionals or independently prescribe treatments. The final treatment decision remains between the patient and qualified healthcare professionals.
Medical partnerships & innovation pathways
Building sustainable pathways to specialized capabilities and validated innovations.
AAM develops relationships with institutions capable of providing advanced medical care. This pillar builds the infrastructure that makes future patient assistance possible, and should progressively reduce the time and difficulty involved in organizing specialized treatment.
Potential activities
- Partnerships with hospitals and specialized medical centers
- Collaboration with physicians and researchers
- Agreements facilitating access to specialized technologies
- Pathways to validated innovative treatments
- Assistance in identifying appropriate clinical trials
- Collaboration with institutions to reduce access barriers
- International medical cooperation networks
What AAM is responsible for
- Identifying institutional partners
- Negotiating partnership agreements
- Maintaining a network of specialists
- Developing treatment access programs
- Monitoring medical innovation
- Building international referral pathways
Enhanced review: experimental treatments may be considered only under enhanced medical, ethical and regulatory review, and always distinguished from established treatments.
Three pillars, one pathway
A single patient typically touches all three: a partner institution is identified (pillar 3), the pathway is coordinated (pillar 2) and the cost is financed (pillar 1).