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Medi-Share Health Insurance is a Christian-based program designed to allow members to help each other with medical care costs and create a community for support, prayer and encouragement.
Not Just a Program
Medi-Share is a also ministry. It started informally with church members simply helping each other pay medical bills, and now, after being formalized into a program, "more than $340,000,000 in medical needs have been shared among members."
How It Works
When paying, members show their Medi-Share membership card. The provider bills Medi-Share, the program negotiates on your behalf for a lower bill and submit it to the community of sharers who pay it.
Membership Eligibility
Qualifications are based on biblical principles: close relationship with Jesus Christ, attend and serve in a church, believe in relying on community for help, commitment to sexual purity before marriage, refrain from smoking or using illegal drugs including the abuse of alcohol, and be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident of the U.S.
Join
Fill out an application (downloaded at http://medi-share.org/uploadedFiles/Medi-Share_App_0509_GS.pdf) and mail it to P.O. Box 120099, West Melbourne, FL 32912-0099, with a $50 application fee. You will be contacted by the approval department.
Services
"Office visits, clinic visits, testing, prescription drugs, and hospitalization" along with other American Medical Association-approved treatments are eligible.
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