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Cost sharing

Index Cost sharing

In health care, cost sharing occurs when patients pay for a portion of health care costs not covered by health insurance. [1]

10 relations: Accounting, Co-insurance, Copayment, Cost-sharing mechanism, Deductible, Health care, Health insurance, Health system, PLOS Medicine, Strategyproofness.

Accounting

Accounting or accountancy is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations.

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Co-insurance

Coinsurance in insurance, is the splitting or spreading of risk among multiple parties.

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Copayment

A copayment or copay is a fixed amount for a covered service, paid by a patient to the insurance company before patient receives service from physician.

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Cost-sharing mechanism

In economics and mechanism design, a cost-sharing mechanism is a process by which several agents decide on the scope of a public product or service, and how much each agent should pay for it.

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Deductible

In an insurance policy, the deductible is the amount paid out of pocket by the policy holder before an insurance provider will pay any expenses.

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Health care

Health care or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings.

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Health insurance

Health insurance is insurance that covers the whole or a part of the risk of a person incurring medical expenses, spreading the risk over a large number of persons.

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Health system

A health system, also sometimes referred to as health care system or as healthcare system, is the organization of people, institutions, and resources that deliver health care services to meet the health needs of target populations.

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PLOS Medicine

PLOS Medicine (formerly styled PLoS Medicine) is a peer-reviewed weekly medical journal covering the full spectrum of the medical sciences.

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Strategyproofness

In game theory, an asymmetric game where players have private information is said to be strategyproof (SP) if it is a weakly-dominant strategy for every player to reveal his/her private information, i.e. you fare best or at least not worse by being truthful, regardless of what the others do.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_sharing

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