Patients’ out-of-pocket expenses analysis of presurgical teledermatology
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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...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1478-7547
DOI: 10.1186/s12962-019-0186-3