copayment

In May 1997, the Michigan Department of Corrections (MDOC) implemented a co-payment policy, requiring inmates to be assessed a 3ドル co-payment for routine health care services that they request.

The budget will reintroduce competitive bidding and a 20% co-payment for outpatient lab services under Medicare.

If there's a new Medicare MCO in the region offering a fabulous deal--free eyeglasses, a 5ドル co-payment for prescriptions, full hearing aid coverage and cab fare to and from the doctor's office--watch out.

According to HCFA, the onus is on each provider facility not to bill Medicare more than the 1,500ドル amount (which is actually more like 1,200ドル when you figure in the co-payment).

That means the HMO option appeals primarily to the healthy elderly, who are less interested in doctor choice than in avoiding the 20 percent co-payment demanded under Medicare's fee-for-service system.

Jim McDermott, D-WA; and health-care policy organizations try to accomplish at the state level what President Clinton failed to do at the national level: enact mandates that force employers to provide their employees with health insurance (and kick in a 50 percent co-payment), create standard benefits packages, and impose cost-containment standards on all businesses.

Participants using a particular drug for the first time are required to pay a 15ドル co-payment for brand-name or 5ドル for generic drugs, and they receive a 30-day supply of the drug.

The main difference between the plans was the co-payment rate--the percentage of health expenses paid by the family--which was 0, 25, 50, or 95 percent.

George Oppong Danquah, has warned that the authority would apply severe sanctions against health facilities that engage in co-payment under the Health Insurance Scheme.

It seems as though, through insurance, the pharmacies are doing lavish business because they not only get 20 to 30 per cent co-payment from the patient but also recover the balance amount from respective insurance companies, for selling complete packets.