نتایج جستجو برای: out of pocket payments

تعداد نتایج: 21178343  

  Background and Objectives: One of the main aims in Health Care Reform Plan is improvement of justice in household’s financial participation that its tool is reduction of out-of- pocket payment. This study was conducted to compare out- of- pocket payment for aortic valve replacement (AVR) surgery before and after implementation of the Health Care Reform Plan in Shiraz Namazi Hospital in 2016....

1981
James R. Cantwell

Between 1950 and 1980, the physician fee component of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 488 percent. In contrast, an index of physician fees adjusted for 1) overall inflation, and 2) the declining proportion which is paid out-of-pocket by the patient, declined over the same 30-year period. This last observation, pointing to the erosion of the market, is important for structuring price competi...

2016
Sedona Sweeney Anna Vassall Nicola Foster Victoria Simms Patrick Ilboudo Godfather Kimaro Don Mudzengi Lorna Guinness

Out-of-pocket spending is increasingly recognized as an important barrier to accessing health care, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) where a large portion of health expenditure comes from out-of-pocket payments. Emerging universal healthcare policies prioritize reduction of poverty impact such as catastrophic and impoverishing healthcare expenditure. Poverty impact...

Journal: :Health affairs 2008
Sharon K Long

In April 2006, Massachusetts passed legislation intended to move the state to near-universal coverage within three years and, in conjunction with that expansion, to improve access to affordable, high-quality health care. In roughly the first year under reform, uninsurance among working-age adults was reduced by almost half among those surveyed, dropping from 13 percent in fall 2006 to 7 percent...

Journal: :WHO South-East Asia journal of public health 2014
Indrani Gupta Samik Chowdhury

BACKGROUND A key objective of universal health coverage is to address inequities in the financial implications of health care. This paper examines the level and trend in out-of-pocket spending (OOPS) on health, and the consequent burden on Nepalese households. METHODS Using data from the Nepal Living Standard Survey for 1995-1996 and 2010-2011, the paper looks at the inequity of this burden a...

Informal payments in clinics raise ethical concerns in healthcare delivery. This cross-sectional questioner survey aims to evaluate the prevalence and related factors of informal payment in healthcare system in Iran. The study was carried out in 2013, prior to the implementation of the government' Health System Reform among physicians with different specialties. The questionnaire were distribu...

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