Navigating Catholic Health Plans and Care
Today’s political, cultural, and legal environment has caused Catholics to look for health plan options that best align with their faith and values. Unfortunately, government regulations and mandates prevent Catholics from quickly finding those solutions.
Our goal is to help you find protections from the government mandates, identify health plan options that fit your faith needs, and locate Catholic health care professionals to best care for you, your family, and your employees.
After all, finding morally compliant benefits and whole-person Catholic healthcare allows you to Live Well, Live Healthy, and Live Catholic.
What is Catholic Insurance?
Catholic insurance puts our faith first ensuring moral compliance with the teachings of the church while promoting authentic, whole person care. It focuses in on our true, Catholic identity and allows for coverage of benefits that are more supportive of our faith, family, and lifestyle.
What is Catholic Healthcare?
Catholic healthcare is Christ-centered care that focuses on the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual needs of a person while specifically respecting human dignity. It’s providing authentic care through evidence-based scientific medicine with a Catholic perspective.
Living your faith fully is critical to an authentic lifestyle.
That’s why selecting Catholic healthcare options that align with our faith are important.
Finding Catholic Healthcare Solutions
Our guide provides ways for Catholics to protect their employer health plans and to understand the different Catholic healthcare options that are available to them.
What Type of Health Plan Are You Looking For?
- Individual or Family Health Plan
- Small Business Employee Health Plan
- Large Business Employee Health Plan
There are very few faith-friendly insurance options in the marketplace as most cover services that are inconsistent with our Catholic teaching. In fact, some are looking at non-insurance options.
- Health Share plans are one option that individuals and families are evaluating.
- Health Share plans are not insurance plans. They are focused on a community health-based platform but are sensitive to faith. You should investigate whether this option is right for you, your family, and your medical circumstances.
- We recommend looking into a Catholic health share called CMF Curo for more information. Learn more at www.cmfcuro.com.
We also recommend authentic, whole person care with Catholic medical professionals. Did you know you can receive Catholic medical care anywhere in the United States with MyCatholicDoctor.com?
MyCatholicDoctor.com is a telemedicine solution that you can access from anywhere. Convenient, cost-effective, and Catholic!
For smaller Catholic employers looking for options to provide a strong faith-based solution for their health plans, we recommend two options:
- Option 1: Join the Catholic Benefits Association to protect your health plans from having to cover contraception, abortifacients, sterilization, and the counseling of those services. As well, be protected from having to cover transgender related services.
- Option 2: Check into health plan options from the Christian Brothers or Health Share plans like CMF Curo.
If you would like to learn more of how to promote a stronger Catholic healthcare experience for your employees and their families, contact Jason Coon, VP Healthcare Benefits Consultative Services today for more information.
We also recommend authentic, whole person care with Catholic medical professionals. Did you know you can receive Catholic medical care anywhere in the United States with MyCatholicDoctor.com? MyCatholicDoctor.com is a telemedicine solution that you can access from anywhere. Convenient, cost-effective, and Catholic!
Morally Compliant Health Plan
For employers that offer self-funded medical health plan options, you have a huge advantage in securing a morally compliant plan to your Catholic employees. See how the Catholic Benefits Association can help you to provide an authentic Catholic healthcare experience.
Protections from Mandates
Large Catholic Employers must protect their health plans through the Catholic Benefits Association. Learn more about how you can protect the religious liberties of your plan.
Improved Catholic Identity
Improve the Catholic Identity of your health plans through the CBA’s detailed plan review and moral compliance scoring process. Learn how CBA can build a consultative action plan designed to improve your health plan’s Catholic identity.
Genesis Health Care Program
Looking for moral compliance, secured mandate protections and improved Catholic Identity all in one health plan solution, check out Genesis. Genesis combines faith and healthcare in a way that allows your employees and their families to live authentically, uncompromised, and Catholic. Explore Genesis today!
Authentic Catholic Healthcare
We also recommend authentic, whole person care with Catholic medical professionals. Did you know you can receive Catholic medical care anywhere in the United States with MyCatholicDoctor.com? MyCatholicDoctor.com is a telemedicine solution that you can access from anywhere. Convenient, cost-effective, and Catholic!
Experience Catholic Healthcare Today!
Have you heard of My Catholic Doctor?
If you want to experience authentic, care where medical professionals practice evidence-based scientific medicine from a Catholic perspective, we recommend the services of MyCatholicDoctor.com. The team at MyCatholicDoctor integrates Catholic spirituality into their care model where appropriate thus providing whole person care for you and your family.
No matter where you are in the country, MyCatholicDoctor.com provides a virtual healthcare solution.
They don’t just spend 5 mins with you to get you off the phone with a prescription, they engage you and your family in a caring and wholistic way – physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
Check out MyCatholicDoctor.com and make an appointment TODAY. Experience true Catholic healthcare at its finest!
If you are a Catholic medical professional or clinic that would like to be a part of our promotional efforts of sharing, communicating and educating on Catholic Healthcare or featured on our website, please email jasoncoon@catholicbenefitsassocation.org. We are growing a directory of Catholic medical professionals and clinics to guide patients interested in receiving authentic, whole person, Catholic healthcare.