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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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