Out-of-pocket nonmedical expenses associated with out-patient treatment of common childhood illnesses

Out-of-pocket nonmedical expenses associated with out-patient treatment of common childhood illnesses.

BACKGROUND Out-of-pocket expenses, medical and non-medical, have an impoverishing effect on the family. OBJECTIVE Determine non-medical out-of-pocket expenses incurred during out-patient attendance for primary care services. METHODS A descriptive survey was undertaken at a rural medical college using interviewer-administered questionnaire to parents of children <6 years over a period of 6 w...

Medical Out-of-Pocket Expenses, Poverty, and the Uninsured∗

The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance argued that the current official U.S. poverty measure should be updated to capture changes in the population’s healthcare costs and needs; families with sufficiently high medical out-ofpocket (MOOP) expenditures may be ‘poor’ even though they are not counted as such. This research offers three distinct advances toward...

Do pharmaceutical prices respond to potential patient out-of-pocket expenses?

Despite the importance of patient insurance in the market for prescription pharmaceuticals, little is known about the impact of patient reimbursement on the pricing behavior of pharmaceutical firms. I examine the link between potential patient out-of-pocket expenses and pharmaceutical pricing using a unique policy experiment from Germany. Starting in 1989, a maximum reimbursement for a given me...

Inpatient Out-of-Pocket in Iran After Health Transformation Plan

Recent trends in the probability of high out-of-pocket medical expenses in the United States

OBJECTIVE This article measures the probability that out-of-pocket expenses in the United States exceed a threshold share of income. It calculates this probability separately by individuals' health condition, income, and elderly status and estimates changes occurring in these probabilities between 2010 and 2013. DATA AND METHOD This article uses nationally representative household survey data...