Objective The objective of this study is to determine if critical illness insurance (CII) promotes the universal health coverage reduce out-of-pocket (OOP) medical expenditures and improve effective reimbursement rate (ERR) in rural China. Study design 5-year monthly hospitalisation data, starting 2 years before CII (ie, ‘intervention’) began, were collected. Interrupted time series analysis mo...

In the background of ongoing health sector reforms in India, the paper investigates the magnitude and trends in out-of-pocket and catastrophic payments for key population sub-groups. Data from three rounds of nationally representative consumer expenditure surveys (1999-2000, 2004-05 and 2011-12) were pooled to assess changes over time in a range of out-of-pocket -related outcome indicators for ...

Objective. This research aimed to determine the in-patient expenditure of COVID-19 adult patient s and their out-of-pocket (OOP) payments at University Philippines-Philippine General Hospital (UP-PGH) after new PhilHealth case rate coverage was instituted last 15 April 2020. It also intended present preliminary data on expenses incurred by COVID patients during initial phase pandemic in country...

This study estimates progressivity of out-of-pocket (OOP) health payments and their determinants using South African Income Expenditure Surveys. Concentration is decomposed to examine the effec...

Research on impact of publicly financed health insurance has paid relatively little attention to the nature of healthcare provision the schemes engage. India's National Health Insurance Scheme or RSBY was made universal by Chhattisgarh State in 2012. In the State, public and private sectors provide hospital services in a context of extensive gender, social, economic and geographical inequities....

OBJECTIVE To estimate the effect of "Seguro Popular" (SP) on the incidence of catastrophic health expenditure (CHE) and out-of-pocket (OOP) health expenditure in the medium term. MATERIAL AND METHODS We used the 'Encuesta de Evaluación del SP' --SP Survey Evaluation-- (2005-2008). We analyzed the SP effect on the rural cohort during two years of follow-up (2006 and 2008) and in the urban coho...

Little is known about out-of-pocket (OOP) costs incurred for medical and health needs by rural breast cancer survivors and what factors may be associated with higher OOP costs and the associated economic burden. Data were examined for 432 survivors participating in the Rural Breast Cancer Survivor Intervention trial. OOP costs were collected using the Work and Finances Inventory survey at basel...

BACKGROUND Measures taken over the past four years in Greece to reduce pharmaceutical expenditure have led to significant price reductions for medicines, but have also changed patient cost-sharing rates for prescription drugs. This study attempts to capture the resulting increase in patients' out-of-pocket (OOP) expenses for prescription drugs during the 2011-2014 period. METHODS The authors ...