Musicians Health Support
Location: New York, NY 10001
Fractured Atlas is an advocacy group that works across many fields on the music world, but runs campaigns to provide proper knowledge and service to artists as the approach health care and insurance. They have been providing musicians with balanced insurance plans for over a decade.
Hearos offers earplugs for musicians to help prevent hearing loss and damage from playing. They also have a free iPhone app that reads the decibel level in the room and suggests the best ear protection to prevent hearing loss.
Location: Washington, WA 20036
The Future of Music Coalition, non profit Music org, has developed a tool with the goal to provide musician-friendly free support and advice to curious musicians who need information about health insurance. There are both articles that give an overview of the options available for musicians as well as free telephone advice service where you can talk to an insurance expert about your situation to understand your options.
Location: Washington, WA 20036
General information on musician’s health insurance and background on issue and where to go for help.
Location: Santa Monica, CA 90404
The "heart and soul" of MusiCares is the Emergency Financial Assistance Program that provides critical funds for music people struggling with financial, medical or personal crises. This program offers financial assistance for medical expenses including doctor, dental and hospital bills, prescriptions, addiction recovery treatment, psychotherapy, treatment for HIV/AIDS, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's and other critical illnesses, as well as basic living expenses such as rent and utilities.
Location: New York, NY 10001
The Musicians Foundation helps professional musicians by providing emergency financial assistance in meeting current living, medical and allied expenses. Request for money is handled by filling out an application on their website and by mail. You can also request one by telephone at 212-239-9137 or email at info@musiciansfoundation.org
Article in Sonic Scoop about how uninsured musician's can and should approach The Affordable Care Act or 'Obamacare.'
AFTRA, founded in 1937, covers more than 70,000 performers across forms of broadcast media. They offer similar member benefits to AFM (collective bargaining, health/pension plans, etc.) and have an extensive section on their website about their health care plan.
Location: New York, NY 10016-2401
AFM was founded in 1896 as a way of organizing more than 3,000 musicians within the United States. Today, AFM covers more than 90,000 musicians in the United States and Canada. They offer the benefits of collective bargaining, instrument insurance, access to referrals within the industry, pension and health care plans to members.
Location: Austin, TX 78703-0025
The mission of Health Alliance for Austin Musicians is to provide access to affordable health care for Austin's low income, uninsured working musicians, with a focus on prevention and wellness.
Location: Woodbury, NY 11797
Music Pro Insurance offers insurance for the music professional in areas such as equipment insurance, studio liability insurance, tour insurance, media/cyber insurance, health coverage and life insurance.
Location: New York, NY 10101-1680
Non-profit who help youth find ways towards healthy futures through mentoring, educational, and live performance based programs.
Location: Huntington Beach, CA 92649
Sweet Relief provides financial assistance to all types of career musicians who are facing illness, disability, or age-related problems
Location: Colorado Springs, CO 80935
Custom fit hearing protection designed for musicians
