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Descriptor
English
:
Cost Sharing
Descriptor
Spanish
:
Seguro de Costos Compartidos
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Custo Compartilhado de Seguro
Tree Number:
N03.219.151.170
N03.219.521.576.090
Definition
English
:
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)
Indexing Annotation
English
:
restrict to
insurance
: sharing of costs by both insured & insurer
See Related
English
:
Health Benefit Plans, Employee
Managed Care Programs
History Note
English
:
92; COST SHARING INSURANCE was see DEDUCTIBLES AND COINSURANCE 1978-91
Allowable Qualifiers
English
:
CL
classification
EC
economics
ES
ethics
HI
history
LJ
legislation & jurisprudence
MT
methods
ST
standards
SN
statistics & numerical data
TD
trends
UT
utilization
Record Number:
30175
Unique Identifier:
D017047
Occurrence in VHL
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