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Just because it's a new year doesn't mean you should make drastic changes to improve your health. On the contrary, minor adjustments can significantly improve your health and help you become the best you can be.

Liberty HealthShare facilitates the sharing process for our active members who send monthly contributions and submit medical needs to their community.

Protecting our members' resources is the responsibility of each sharing member and our ministry. Liberty HealthShare serves its community by facilitating the contributions members send one another, assessing the number of expenses we receive and considering if and when action is needed.

In January, many of us are focused on improving our health in the new year. People who believe they have a sense of control over their lives are generally happier and healthier.

As a member of a healthcare sharing ministry, please keep the below information in mind when filing your taxes this year.

We live in a world where we come into contact with people every day. Everyone wants to go on outings, see friends and spend holidays with loved ones. But a recent study found that the number of influenza cases we see this year may be severely impacted by many of the same measures you’re already taking to stop the spread of coronavirus.

Our members take a hands-on approach to their health and their healthcare. They have greater involvement in the healthsharing process, and their effective engagement can improve the health and wellbeing of those in their healthsharing community.

If you want a healthy morning pick me up that satisfies your holiday cookie craving, too, these no-bake chewy truffle cookies may be the perfect breakfast cookie to start your day!

Christian healthsharing ministries are non-profit organizations designed to help individuals and families struggling to pay for medical care and may be an option if you don’t qualify for a federal subsidy and can’t afford a plan under the Affordable Care Act. Generally, healthcare sharing ministries offer a cost-effective alternative way to care for your family’s health..

Some people can’t afford traditional healthcare. If you’re one of them, just know that you’re not alone. And there are several alternatives to consider that can provide the health care you need and save you money.

November is Diabetes Awareness Month. And diabetes is one of the most common medical problems in the United States. If you’ve been diagnosed with diabetes, it’s important that you learn how to manage it and make changes in your everyday life to accommodate this plan. Here’s a list of five key areas of diabetes self-management to focus on.

Being a part of a Christian healthcare ministry may be perfect for you if you find traditional healthcare coverage to be too expensive, you lost your healthcare coverage, or want to break free from the constraints of traditional healthcare. Let’s take a look at medical cost-sharing and some of the differences between it, the Affordable Care Act, and traditional health insurance.

Healthcare sharing is a way to pay your healthcare costs and stick to your budget while helping your fellow Christians and upholding your Christian beliefs at the same time. And it makes a lot of sense for singles to take advantage of a medical cost-sharing opportunity. Let’s take a closer look at some of the reasons why healthcare sharing makes sense for singles.

ShareBox is one of your most important membership tools. It’s where you can find everything that you need to be an active sharing member and manage your healthcare expenses, while supporting other like-minded individuals who enjoy the freedom of sharing medical expenses. Instructional videos, newsletters, forms and requests, membership information, and Liberty TeleHealth guides are all available in the resource section of ShareBox.

Thanksgiving is not only about breaking bread with our loved ones and friends around our favorite holiday meals; it's also about creating meaningful connections.

Liberty HealthShare exists to help our members share medical expenses. Our new sharing programs – Liberty Unite, Liberty Connect, and Liberty Essential – assist in protecting our SharePower, decreasing our share times, and increasing our ability to share more eligible medical expenses.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a time to remind women of the need for regular breast cancer screenings. Awareness surrounding breast cancer is vital as early detection, often through screening, can catch the condition when it is most treatable.

Liberty HealthShare has created three new sharing programs: Liberty Unite, Liberty Connect and Liberty Essential. These new programs help to steward our collective resources - powerfully serving our members and the future of our sharing community. Please note that if your annual renewal date is November, December of this year, or January, February or March 2022, you will need to make a new program selection before March 25, 2022.

We believe in helping more people to reduce the high cost of medical care, so we generously offer many individuals with pre-existing conditions the opportunity to be a part of our community and receive support from other healthsharing members.

September is Healthy Aging Month. Individuals who maintain a healthy lifestyle may decrease illness and sustain vibrancy as they age. Incorporate these healthy foods and activities into your schedule to improve your physical, mental, and spiritual fulfillment.

In September, Liberty HealthShare employees had an opportunity to invest in the lives of school children by donating school supplies and filling classroom closets for an elementary school in Akron, Ohio.

During August, we encourage you to join others in recognizing National Wellness Month by taking steps to prioritize your self-care, manage your stress levels and create healthy routines. Regardless of where you are in your journey, maintaining your health and being proactive in your healthcare will help you enjoy life to the fullest.

As long as we live on this planet, there will be challenges, heartaches, and disappointments that threaten to steal our joy. Thankfully there will most likely also be days of peace and even happiness. Through it all, it is far better to be connected with God daily.

To be at your healthiest, taking actionable steps towards living a healthy lifestyle is essential. It is vital that you also prioritize maintaining a positive mindset to remain energized and motivated long-term. These positive mindset tips will inspire and support you as you pursue your health and lifestyle goals.

As a member of a healthsharing ministry, it’s essential to educate yourself on how healthsharing works and how to partner with your provider and medical facilities effectively. However, if you receive a ‘balance bill’ from your provider, you need to know what a balance bill is and how to handle them.

This month we are happy to introduce to you one of our Provider and Member Services Team Leads, Cha’Mari B. She helps our members and providers understand Liberty HealthShare’s unique processes while also supporting her coworkers. She goes above and beyond to serve our ministry, “Liberty HealthShare has been such a blessing in my life,” she said.

Nicolette, founder and vice president of the Seeds of Mustard Ministries ministry, along with her husband, George, have been Liberty HealthShare members for almost four years. She shares why she choose to be a member and what she enjoys about being a part of our healthsharing community.

As a healthsharing community, we understand the importance of wisely stewarding our health and financial resources. Using Liberty TeleHealth is a flexible way to care for your health and reduce the sharing community’s overall expenses and help preserve SharePower.

Liberty HealthShare is not insurance and as a healthsharing ministry, our members have the freedom to care for their health in a special way and share medical expenses with their fellow members. At the core of our healthsharing community is our collective resources, called SharePower. Each month, our members voluntarily contribute a monthly share to help other members in need. Combined, the funds shared are powerful. In 2020 alone, more than $347 million in medical expenses were shared among members. Protecting our shared resources ensures that we are here for each other now and in the future. Here are a few ways to help you steward the resources of our community.

Our ability to share one another's medical expenses is dependent on the overall health of our community. When you choose to partake in healthy lifestyle habits, you contribute to our healthsharing community and support your fellow members by protecting our SharePower. Everyone's actions impact the ministry and our collective resources and we commit to caring for our health responsibly, and this decision supports our core values of stewarding our resources. By properly caring for ourselves, we can better care for our lives, families, and our healthsharing community.

For the month of February, we are excited to introduce you to our Intake Specialist and Trainer, Christine H. Christine joined the Liberty family over three years ago, and she enjoys “being able to help so many families across the United States learn who we are and what we do.” Like many of our staff, Christine is passionate about our community and finds joy in supporting our members throughout varying stages of their healthsharing journeys.

Liberty HealthShare is not insurance and as a healthsharing ministry, our members have the freedom to care for their health in a special way and share medical expenses with their fellow members. At the core of our healthsharing community is our collective resources, called SharePower. Each month, our members voluntarily contribute a monthly share to help other members in need. Combined, the funds shared are powerful. In 2020 alone, more than $347 million in medical expenses were shared among members. Protecting our shared resources ensures that we are here for each other now and in the future. Here are a few ways to help you steward the resources of our community.

Understanding Liberty HealthShare’s unique processes is an important art of being a good healthsharing member. To help support our members in learning and receiving the most value from their membership, we have created helpful instructional videos. These videos will help you better navigate your healthsharing membership. They include the explanation of various Liberty HealthShare processes and tutorials for essential functions, such as using ShareBox or properly submitting medical expenses. You can find the videos below in your ShareBox:

The Easter story is one of hope and new life. It is a call to those who will listen and His invitation is for all. We are invited to come out of the bondage of our own self-focus and come into the glorious freedom of our Lord Jesus Christ. This Easter, may you know that Christ is risen! He is risen indeed!

Communicating with your providers is one of the best ways to ensure you have a smooth healthsharing experience. To help, we have created a tool for you to use to talk with your provider and explain your healthsharing program works and what it means to be a member of a sharing community.

All of us want to be loved. It is at the core of who we are as human beings. We crave knowing that someone loves us and cares enough about us to show it. For some, the month of February is a time to celebrate love. Jesus loves you! It is profound. It is true. It is for you.

Has your provider told you that you need surgery? Here’s what you can do to help make sure your surgery process at Liberty HealthShare is seamless for you and your sharing community.

It can be challenging to stick to a healthy diet in the cold month of February, so we put together these healthy diet tips to help keep you out of hibernation mode and on track towards your health goals.

For the month of February, we are excited to introduce you to Rachel M., who has been a part of our Liberty family for over a year. We are so thankful to have her on staff. She said she appreciates “opportunities for growth and advancement” explaining that Liberty HealthShare is always finding new ways to help our members and their employees.

Our members have the unique opportunity to support one another by sharing their personal experiences and advice on how to best use utilize their healthsharing membership and protect their shared collective resources. This month we are featuring Liberty HealthShare member, Anne D., who often helps other members by sharing useful member tips and information.

Adding a little one to your family can be a very exciting time, but trying to figure out how to best utilize your healthsharing membership can feel a bit overwhelming at times. We have created a useful Maternity Guide for expectant families and a Facebook group for expectant parents to join.

Your Liberty HealthShare Membership ID card is a tool to identify you as an active member of a healthsharing community. Here's how you can use and access your Member ID Card for use within your healthsharing membership.

As a member of a healthcare sharing ministry, please keep the below information in mind when filing your taxes this year.

As we enter the New Year, we are reflecting on the improvements we made together in spite of the challenges we faced together.

Every year we review and assess our Sharing Guidelines to ensure we are helping our community to conserve our shared resources and make necessary changes to meet the needs of our member community. This year, Liberty HealthShare has determined that the following guideline changes (please see our Sharing Guidelines for the full version) will help our members steward their health and enjoy the option of healthsharing.

Every month we share a story about one of the many great people that we have here at Liberty HealthShare. For the month of January, we are excited to introduce you to Danielle H., who has works in our Provider Relations Department as a Member Facilitator. She enjoys working with our members and finds it very rewarding to be able to listen to their stories and offer encouragement.

Like many others, you may be considering setting new goals for 2021. While new goals at the beginning of the year can motivate you, you can also easily lose momentum if the goals you set don’t continue to motivate you past February. Here are a few ideas for setting goals in the New Year.

If you will soon meet or have already met the requirements for Medicare, it is important to know how Medicare enrollment works with your Liberty HealthShare membership. Here’s how healthsharing at Liberty HealthShare works for Medicare members.

ShareBox is your most valuable tool as a member and we are always looking for ways to improve the member experience. We will be making some improvements to ShareBox in the coming weeks and these updates will affect two areas within the Medical Expense tab in ShareBox.

Liberty HealthShare offered members access to a virtual webinar, “COVID-19 Vaccine Q&A,” with health expert and former FDA commissioner, Peter Pitts. Peter answered questions from our members regarding treatments, vaccine development and safety, distribution and more! Read his answers and watch the webinar replay here.

For the month of December, we are excited to introduce Da'Maris, who was happy to share about himself and his journey at Liberty HealthShare. Da’Maris has supported our ministry by assisting our members, their providers and his coworkers with a positive outlook and a servant’s heart.

If you are expecting, we have efficient processes in place to help you smoothly transition throughout your pregnancy and post-pregnancy journey to provide the best care for you and your growing family. In this article, we offer answers to some of our frequently asked questions regarding maternity and how it relates to our current Sharing Guidelines at Liberty HealthShare.

ShareBox is our members most important membership tool and where you will submit your eligible medical expenses and receive important information related to your Liberty membership and healthsharing community. Let's take a look inside ShareBox.

If your goal is to eat healthier and lose weight, you don’t have to give up your favorite foods this Thanksgiving. These healthy recipe ideas can help you enjoy a healthier holiday.

Protecting the health of you and your family during this time is very important and if you or a family member needs testing, including COVID-19 testing, we are here to help offer you cost-saving resources.

Every day, our Liberty HealthShare team works together to serve our members. This month, we are featuring Veronica, who serves in our Quality Control department. She enjoys serving our members and she serves her home community through ministry. Read more about Veronica on our blog.

The month of November reminds us that it's in serving others that we are truly blessed. Here's how we can be intentional and serve others this holiday season.

We talked with our Prenotifcation team and they told us how they help our sharing community and how they assist you in coordinating your healthcare.

A membership year and a program period are both related to your Liberty HealthShare membership, yet they are different from one another. Here's what you need to know about each one and where you can find them.

Every day, our Liberty HealthShare team works together to serve our members. This month, we would like to introduce you to Joe, a member of our Case Management team. We hope you enjoy learning more about Joe and his journey with Liberty HealthShare.

The more frequently you communicate with your healthcare team, the more confident you will become in answering questions about your healthsharing membership at Liberty HealthShare. Use these tips when talking with your doctor.

In October, Liberty HealthShare launched a new sharing program, Liberty Select. Some of our members asked if they can switch their sharing program to a lower AUA program. We answered these questions here.

October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and Liberty HealthShare wants to help spread awareness of this disease. So this month, we are sharing useful information on breast health and what you can do to be proactive with your health.

As we are officialy in fall, it's time to think about how you can make small, healthy changes in your lifestyle to protect your health this winter.

When you schedule a wellness visit or screening, it's important to know the difference between wellness and diagnostic services and how they are coded, depending on your circumstance.

Liberty HealthShare is launching a new sharing program, Liberty Select. This new program offers lower monthly share amounts, along with a higher annual unshared amount (AUA) for each sharing level within the new program. We answered your questions about Liberty's new program in this FAQ.

As empowered, educated healthcare consumers, our members often ask questions to better understand how our healthsharing process works and what it means to be a good healthsharing member. In this post we answer why we require diagnosis codes with expense submission.

Peter Pitts, Former Associate Commissioner of the FDA and Liberty HealthShare Advisory Board member, explained why the FDA has recalled some hand sanitizers, what to look for and what questions to ask if you’re using hand sanitizer.

Knowing how to correctly submit a bill in your ShareBox is integral in efficiently facilitating the sharing of your eligible expenses through your healthsharing community. This video will help you walk through each step of submitting an expense.

Knowing how to correctly submit a bill in your ShareBox is integral in efficiently facilitating the sharing of your eligible expenses through your healthsharing community. This video will help you walk through each step of submitting an expense.

The EOS is a helpful and informative document that aids you in better understanding your medical expense and how your community has supported you.

If you or one of your family members has a pre-existing condition, it is important to understand what this means as a Liberty HealthShare member and how it effects your shareable medical expenses.

One healthsharing term you should be familiar with is your AUA, or Annual Unshared Amount. If you’ve never heard of this before, that’s okay! We’re here to help you understand it.

In these difficult times, it helps to have someone there to support you. The members of Liberty HealthShare support each other when it comes to their healthcare expenses, even those expenses related to COVID-19. Learn how they’re making a difference!