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Health Care Economics and Organizations > Economics > Costs and Cost Analysis > Cost Sharing
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Economics > Costs and Cost Analysis > Cost Sharing
Health Care Economics and Organizations > Economics > Financing, Organized > Insurance > Cost Sharing
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Social Sciences > Economics > Financing, Organized > Insurance > Cost Sharing

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Cost Sharing  

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  • Cost Sharing Insurance
  • Cost-Sharing Insurance
  • Insurance, Cost-Sharing

Note

  • restrict to insurance: sharing of costs by both insured & insurer

Scope note

  • Provisions of an insurance policy that require the insured to pay some portion of covered expenses. Several forms of sharing are in use, e.g., deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments. Cost sharing does not refer to or include amounts paid in premiums for the coverage. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)

History note

  • 92; COST SHARING INSURANCE was see DEDUCTIBLES AND COINSURANCE 1978-91

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