Guides for running a health care sharing ministry
Written to be useful whether or not you ever use Auxilium. Most of what is in here is process advice that costs nothing to adopt.
Operations
- How to move 5,000 members to a new processor without asking any of them to re-enroll Stored cards and verified bank mandates transfer between processors directly, with no member action and no billing gap. What the process actually involves, what it costs in time, and which members genuinely do have to act.
- Moving a member roster without losing anybody Practical guidance on migrating years of member records out of spreadsheets and legacy systems: what breaks, what to check, and how to dedupe without merging two real people.
- Why claims stall, and how to stop it The specific mechanics of a claim going quiet for months, and the process changes that prevent it — most of which are not software.
Governance
- What a share ratio is, and why it matters Of every dollar members contribute, how much reaches medical bills? How to compute it, what a healthy number looks like, and how to read one honestly.
Product
- How Auxilium scores claims integrity The full method: a starting score of 100, named deductions with stated weights, and a band. No model, no hidden coefficients.
- Why Auxilium does not use AI for scoring Every score in Auxilium is a sum of named, weighted reasons. Here is the reasoning behind that constraint, and where AI would be appropriate.
Comparisons
- Auxilium vs the spreadsheets you have now An honest comparison against the tool most ministries actually run on, including the things spreadsheets genuinely do better.
- Auxilium vs a general-purpose CRM What a generic CRM does better, what it cannot model about sharing ministries, and how to decide between them.
- Auxilium vs legacy administration systems Purpose-built ministry administration platforms are more complete than Auxilium in several areas. Here is the honest split.