Dollar For
A nonprofit that checks whether you qualify for a hospital's charity care and then helps you file the application.
Best for
Anyone holding a hospital bill they cannot pay, including bills already sent to collections.
Why Kave includes this
Nonprofit hospitals are required to run financial-assistance programs, and most patients never learn they exist. Dollar For does the two things that actually move a bill: it screens you against the specific hospital's published policy, and it files the paperwork with you. It charges patients nothing and takes no cut of what it saves.
- Expected cost
- Free. Dollar For is funded by donations and takes no fee from patients.
- Insurance requirement
- None. Insured patients with large balances frequently qualify for charity care too.
- Who qualifies
- Depends on the hospital's own policy, commonly covering households under 200–400% of the Federal Poverty Level. Their screener checks the specific hospital's rules.
- Where it is available
- Nationwide (United States)
- How you use it
- Online or by phone
- Languages
- English and Spanish
Limitations Kave wants you to know about
- Applies to nonprofit and many public hospitals; most for-profit hospitals are not covered by the same federal requirement.
- Cannot help with physician bills billed separately from the hospital's own charges.
- Hospitals set their own filing deadlines, often 240 days from the first bill.
Verification
Compiled by Kave on July 1, 2026 and link-checked. Not yet independently verified. Kave assembled this from the organisation’s own published material and confirmed the links resolve. No reviewer has confirmed the eligibility details against the source, so check them on the official site before you rely on them.
- Compiled
- July 1, 2026 (28 days ago)
- Next scheduled review
- September 29, 2026
- Reviewed by
- Not yet reviewed
Sources used
- Dollar For — read July 1, 2026
Kave quality score
93/100
Kave lists resources scoring 80 or above that also clear all four mandatory gates.
- Patient impact24/25
- Affordability or financial value20/20
- Transparency14.1/15
- Accessibility12.9/15
- Ease of use9.2/10
- Geographic reach4.5/5
- Privacy and data practices4.3/5
- Institutional credibility4.2/5
Geographic reach is deliberately worth only five points, so a strong local resource is not pushed out by a weak national one. Read the methodology.