The Genentech Access to Care Foundation (GATCF) was established to help patients with unmet medical needs who are uninsured or rendered uninsured by payer denial and who meet specific financial and medical criteria to receive proper medical treatment.

They are committed to helping ease the financial burdens that some patients and their families may experience in gaining access to our medicines. In support of the commitment, GATCF provides free medicine to qualified patients.

GATCF has defined specific insurance, financial and medical criteria that must be met for individual patients to be eligible for assistance 

Insurance: the patient must be uninsured or rendered uninsured by payer denial

Financial: the patient must have an annual household adjusted gross income (AGI) < $100,000

Medical: the patient must meet medical criteria

In 2014:
They helped more than 180,000 patients access the Genentech medicines they needed

The Genentech® Access to Care Foundation (GATCF) provided free Genentech medicine to approximately 40,000 patients who did not have insurance, were underinsured or whose insurance wouldn’t cover their Genentech medicine, and who met certain medical and financial criteria

Their donations to independent non-profit organizations supported more than 80,000 patients who were having trouble affording their co-pays