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Out-of-pocket prescription medicine expenditure amongst community-dwelling adults: Findings from the Irish longitudinal study on ageing (TILDA) in 2016

Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy
Background: The number of prescription medicines prescribed to older adults is increasing in Ireland and other countries. This is leading to higher out-of-pocket prescription medicine expenditure for older adults, which has several negative consequences ...
James Larkin, Ciaran Prendergast, Logan T. Murry, Michelle Flood, Barbara Clyne, Sara Burke, Conor Keegan, Fiona Boland, Tom Fahey, Nav Persaud, Rose Anne Kenny, Frank Moriarty   +11 more
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Measuring the impact of Voluntary Health Insurance on out of pocket costs and socioeconomic-related inequality: methodological challenges and potential solutions with an application to Vietnam [PDF]

, 2009
Aims: This study has three aims: 1) to measure the impact of the Vietnamese Voluntary Health Insurance (VHI) programme on out-of-pocket (OOP) costs of health care after correcting for care-seeking and insurance-seeking self-selection biases; 2) to ...
Ali, Shehzad Inayat
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Effectiveness of an Out-of-Pocket Cost Removal Intervention on Health Check Attendance in Japan. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021
Annual health checks are important for identifying individuals at high risk for cardiometabolic diseases. However, there are socioeconomic disparities in health check attendance rates, and an intervention to lower financial barriers could be useful for ...
Murayama H, Takahashi Y, Shimada S.
europepmc   +2 more sources

How to reduce out-of-pocket costs for prescription medications [PDF]

Dermatology Online Journal, 2015
The cost of prescription medicines has recently been rising faster than other healthcare costs.  This is also true for traditionally inexpensive generic medications that have long served as a fundamental healthcare safety net in the USA.  These changes increasingly present challenges for individuals to obtain common medications.
Eliason, Mark J, Sontheimer, Richard D
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Hospitalization costs for children with pneumonia in Shanghai, China from 2019 to 2020

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2022
Pneumonia is the leading cause of death in children under 5 years of age worldwide. In this study, we primarily analyzed the hospitalization costs for children diagnosed with pneumonia in one of the leading public hospitals in Shanghai, China ...
Jing Wang, Zhen-Hui Xu, Jin Lu
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Anabolic and Antiresorptive Osteoporosis Treatment: Trends, Costs, and Sequence in a Commercially Insured Population, 2003–2021

JBMR Plus, 2023
New anabolic medications (abaloparatide and romosozumab) were recently approved for osteoporosis, and data suggest that prescribing antiresorptive medications after a course of anabolic medications offers better outcomes. This study aimed to characterize
Harsh Wadhwa, Janet Y Wu, Jennifer S Lee, Corinna C Zygourakis   +3 more
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Progressivity of out-of-pocket costs for Medicare-subsidised services and medicines in Australia.

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2022
Objectives In line with affordability and equity principles, Medicare—Australia’s universal public health insurance system—has measures to limit out-of-pocket costs (OOPC), especially among lower income households.
Hsei Di Law, Dinith Marasinghe, Nicholas Biddle, Danielle Butler, Emily Lancsar, Jane Desborough, Rosemary Korda   +6 more
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Cost-comparison and determinants of out-of-pocket payments on child delivery care in Bangladesh [PDF]

, 2018
Objectives: The objective of this study is to capture the relevant out-of-pocket costs, coping mechanisms, and associated factors that are related to child delivery in Bangladesh through the use of nation-wide household level data. Methods: The study was
Akram, Md Raisul, Alec Morton, Sultana, Marufa, Ali, Nausad, Nausad Ali, Mahumud, Rashidul Alam, Sheikh, Nurnabi, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Raisul Akram, Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Sarker, Abdur Razzaque, Morton, Alec, Marufa Sultana, Nurnabi Sheikh, Akram, Raisul   +14 more
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Costs of breast cancer treatment incurred by women in Vietnam

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background There is a paucity of research on the cost of breast cancer (BC) treatment from the patient’s perspective in Vietnam. Methods Individual-level data about out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures on use of services were collected from women treated for
Tran Thu Ngan, Nguyen Bao Ngoc, Hoang Van Minh, Michael Donnelly, Ciaran O’Neill   +4 more
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Overcoming Barriers to Discussing Out-of-Pocket Costs With Patients [PDF]

JAMA Internal Medicine, 2014
Increased cost sharing, in the forms of higher co-payments, deductibles, and yearly maximums, has been advocated to encourage patients to become smarter consumers and thus to reduce the overall cost of medical care. High out-of-pocket costs, however, can cause care to be delayed or foregone and can lead to financial distress and even bankruptcy.
Kevin R, Riggs, Peter A, Ubel
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