Need assistance traveling to healthcare?
Mercy Medical Angels provides assistance in the air with commercial airline tickets and volunteer pilots, and on the ground with gas cards, bus and train tickets - at No-Cost to Patients.
To Get Started: Fill out one of the forms below based on your transportation.
To Get Started:
Fill out one of the forms below based on your transportation.
Commercial Airline Tickets
Mercy Medical Angels provides charitable, need-based commercial airline assistance for patients and one medically-necessary escort.
A minimum of 21 days’ notice before your travel date to consider flight assistance.
A completed medical clearance form from the doctor who has recently physically seen the patient and knows they are going to this appointment. Our medical clearance form will be faxed to the doctor after we receive your application.
Income verification which includes total household income and assets for everyone living in the household. Forms of verification include current year complete income tax return and current award letters from Disability and SSI (if applicable).
Mercy Medical Angels may sponsor a round-trip for a patient and one non-medical attendant (if the doctor finds it medically necessary) on a commercial flight, coach seating.
- Be able to sit on their own once they are in the seat.
- Require little or no medical attention
- Be able to transfer out of their wheelchair into their seat on the aircraft with little or no assistance (they cannot have someone literally pick them up and sit them in the seat).
- If the patient requires oxygen, some airlines may provide it during the flight. Otherwise, the patient must have a portable oxygen concentrator (POC) approved by the FAA or the airlines. Commercial airlines require no less than 48 hours advance notice to prepare for the equipment needed. The patient is responsible for making these arrangements and paying any travel fees associated with the oxygen.
- An income-based, minimal, nonrefundable airline ticket processing fee will be determined upon verification of all required income documentation.
Ground Transportation
Mercy Medical Angels’ ground transportation program assists financially qualifying patients.
Patients are provided with gas cards, or commercial bus or Amtrak tickets to medical-related treatment. These trips are for non-local medical care more than 50 miles away. Gas cards are also available for multiple trips to local treatment.
Volunteer Pilot Transportation
Mercy Medical Angels’ volunteer pilots generously donate their time and planes to transport patients to life-saving medical care.