Rachel Kaplan was uninsured when she became pregnant last year. So her doctor suggested an alternative: a nonprofit called Sedera, which bills itself as a medical cost-sharing service. Sedera members ...

Fed up by unaffordable costs and insurance denials, more Americans are fleeing the conventional health care system. Many are seeking to cut out the government and insurers entirely by pooling their ...

Peoria, Ill.-based Samaritan Ministries International, a Christian healthcare cost-sharing ministry, has more than 221,000 members partaking in cost-sharing initiatives to help individuals with ...

Enrollment in religious, cost-share ministries is on the rise. The groups, which are typically backed by small Mennonite churches, pool their money to cover medical costs for members. Joann Volk, a ...

CANTON, OH / ACCESS Newswire / September 30, 2025 / Liberty HealthShare ®, a leading healthcare sharing ministry, released a comprehensive white paper titled “Liberty HealthShare: Three Decades of ...

The Alliance of Health Care Sharing Ministries, a trade association representing seven large ministries, said that last year, an estimated 1 million people in the U.S. were members of one of these ...

Faith-based cost-sharing seemed like an alternative to health insurance, until the childbirth bills arrived Health care sharing ministries advertise reimbursements for members’ medical bills. But they ...