Economic Burden of Out-of-Pocket Spending for Plastic Surgery Procedures

Out-of-pocket medical spending for care of chronic conditions.

We examined out-of-pocket medical spending by persons with and without chronic conditions using data from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). Our results show that mean out-of-pocket spending increased with the number of chronic conditions. The level of this spending also varied by age and insurance coverage, among other characteristics. Out-of-pocket spending for prescription dru...

Medicare Beneficiaries’ Out-of-Pocket Spending for Health Care

Medicare beneficiaries spent a median of $3,324 a year of their own money on health care in 2010. Ten percent of beneficiaries—almost 5 million people—spent more than $8,030. Half of all Medicare beneficiaries spent at least 16.4 percent of their income on health care. The burden of health care costs was particularly heavy for the sickest and oldest beneficiaries as well as for near-poor benefi...

Out-of-Pocket Health Care Spending and the Rural Underinsured

The Effect of the Risk of Out-of-Pocket Spending for Health Care on Economic Preparation for Retirement

After retirement, the primary sources of uncertainty with respect to an individual’s economic status are longevity, investment outcomes and out-of-pocket spending on health care. In previous work, we estimated economic preparation for retirement, taking into account the risk of living to an advanced old age and the concomitant risk of running out of resources. But while we accounted for the ave...

paying out of pocket for healthcare in bangladesh - a burden on poor?

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