AFC’s medical benefits coordinators provide free education and health care enrollment services for individuals and organizations who want to learn more about health care options under the Affordable Care Act.
Call our informational hotline at 312-784-9060 to speak with a certified in-person counselor who can answer your questions and help facilitate your enrollment into a health care plan. The phone line is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Medication coverage guides
To help people with HIV choose health insurance marketplace plans, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) and Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School have collected information on single-tablet HIV medication coverage for each plan.
Click here to review the guide.
Every year, AFC conducts a review of the Medicaid Health Plans available to people living with HIV on each of the operating Illinois Medicaid health plans. While this information is updated regularly by plans and the state, it provides a snapshot at the different general levels of coverage, and the particular drugs being offered, in each plan, to allow for health insurance decisions to be made with all relevant and necessary information.
Click here to review the guide.
To help people with HIV and hepatitis C (HCV) choose health insurance marketplace plans, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) and Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation of Harvard Law School have collected information on HIV and HCV medication coverage for each plan.
Click here to review the guide.
Medicaid Managed Care Guide
There have been many changes to the health care system in Illinois. These changes have affected people who have always had Medicaid and people who are new to Medicaid. We hope this guide helps you understand those changes so that you get the health care you need.
Learn more about AFC's health insurance initiatives here.
Learn how health reform can help people with HIV from our project SpeakUp.hiv.
