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Healthcare workers´ experiences and perceptions of the provision of health insurance benefits to the elderly in rural Tanzania: an explorative qualitative study

BMC Public Health, 2023
Background Healthcare workers play an important part in the delivery of health insurance benefits, and their role in ensuring service quality and availability, access, and good management practice for insured clients is crucial.
Paul Joseph Amani, Miguel San Sebastian, Anna-Karin Hurtig, Angwara Denis Kiwara, Isabel Goicolea   +4 more
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Preferences for private health insurance in China: A discrete choice experiment

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
Introduction There is limited evidence on the sustainability and optimal design of China's private health insurance market, especially from the demand-side.
Nuo Chen, Jing Bai, S. Nicholas, E. Maitland, J. Tan, Jian Wang   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Prevention for those who can pay: insurance reimbursement of genetic-based preventive interventions in the liminal state between health and disease

Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 2015
Clinical use of genetic testing to predict adult onset conditions allows individuals to minimize or circumvent disease when preventive medical interventions are available.
A. Prince
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National Health Insurance Fund’s relationship to retail drug outlets: a Tanzania case study

Journal of Pharmaceutical Policy and Practice, 2021
Achieving universal health coverage will require robust private sector engagement; however, as many low- and middle-income countries launch prepayment schemes to achieve universal health coverage, few are covering products from retail drug outlets ...
M. Embrey, Romuald Mbwasi, Elizabeth Shekalaghe, Jafary Liana, S. Kimatta, G. Ignace, Angel Dillip, Tamara Hafner   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Interrupted time series analysis for the impact of integrated medical insurance on direct hospitalization expense of catastrophic illness

Scientific Reports, 2022
In 2016, China initiated the merge of the urban resident basic medical insurance scheme and new rural cooperative medical scheme into one unified health insurance scheme: the urban and rural resident basic medical insurance.
Li Niu, Qiuhe Song, Yan Liu, Xin Wang
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Benefits Associated with China’s Social Health Insurance Schemes: Trend Analysis and Associated Factors Since Health Reform

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2021
With the deepening of health insurance reform in China, the integration of social health insurance schemes was put on the agenda. This paper aims to illustrate the achievements and the gaps in integration by demonstrating the trends in benefits available
Wanyue Dong, A. Zwi, Ruhai Bai, C. Shen, Jianmin Gao   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Health Insurance Payment for Telehealth Services: Scoping Review and Narrative Synthesis

Journal of Medical Internet Research
BackgroundAs telehealth services have demonstrated significant advantages in providing qualified and accessible care, health insurance payments for telehealth services have been issued by various countries.
Qingqing Li, Feng Cheng, Huatang Zeng, Junfang Xu   +3 more
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The quality of invasive breast cancer care for low reimbursement rate patients: A retrospective study.

PLoS ONE, 2017
Though evidence-based treatments have been recommended for breast cancer, underuse of the treatments was still observed. To certain extent, patients' access to care, which can be enhanced by increasing the coverage of health insurance, could account for ...
Shaofei Su, Han Bao, Xinyu Wang, Zhiqiang Wang, Xi Li, Meiqi Zhang, Jiaying Wang, Hao Jiang, Wenji Wang, Siyang Qu, Meina Liu   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inequity under equality: research on the benefits equity of Chinese basic medical insurance

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background The pursuit of equity is one of the basic principles behind the strengthening of health care reform. China’s new rural cooperative medical insurance (NRCMI) and urban residents’ basic medical insurance (URBMI) are both “equalized” in terms of ...
Li Diao, Yiwei Liu
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Reimbursement of ambulatory blood pressure monitoring in the US commercial insurance marketplace

The Journal of Clinical Hypertension, 2019
Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is increasingly recommended for confirming hypertension diagnosis and ongoing hypertension monitoring. However, reimbursement in the United States is variable and low compared with other advanced health care ...
E. Dietrich, Raj Desai, M. Garg, Haesuk Park, Steven M. Smith   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source