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(1) Liberty Healthshare
Most sharing requests have restrictions, and may require pre-approval. Enrollment requires completion of a health questionnaire.
HealthTrac Program: Diabetes, Hypertension, Heart disease, Cholesterol, Obesity, and Tobacco Use.
Direct Primary Care Membership often include office visits in the monthly membership fee.
(2) Medi-Share
Monthly Amount depends on age, family size, and selection of AHP amount.
Cost might be higher when not using MultiPlan, such as a co-liability of 20% at non-PPO hospitals.
The $35 and $135 co-payments are required even after the member has met the AHP amount.
(3) Christian Healthcare Ministries
A unit can be an adult, or all dependent children of an adult.
- One unit: 1 adult.
- Two units: 2 adults, or 1 adult + children.
- Three units: 2 adults + children.
Extended Coverage with Brothers’ Keeper Program:
- Participation is required for Extended Coverage.
- For Bronze and Silver, amount is increased by $100,000 per year of renewal up to $1 million maximum.
- For Gold, it is unlimited.
- Annual fee is $40 per year, plus $25 per quarter per unit.
(4) Samaritan Ministries
Pre-existing Condition Exclusion: Diabetes, Hypertension, Cholesterol.
Sharing for pre-existing conditions possible after 1 year without symptoms or treatment, or 5 years for genetic defects, hereditary diseases, cases of related cancers, and heart conditions.
The monthly Share amount for an individual membership 29 years old or younger is $160.
All other household sizes are the same regardless of age in Samaritan Classic: $440 for a couple, $305 for single-parent (divorced/widowed) household, $495 for a family of three or more.
Samaritan shares DPC expenses only up to $100 for that month in which a physician is consulted, makes a referral, or changes or services related to a shareable need.
Samaritan shares expenses for Medical Equipment up to $4,950.
(5) Altrua Healthshare
Only plans for the Gold package displayed.
Rates slightly slower for the other packages.
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