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Out-of-pocket payments in hospital bills: a challenge to management [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2018
ABSTRACT Objetive: To analyse out-of-pocket payments (OOP) by health insurance company in hospital bills. Method: Cross-sectional study with quantitative approach. The information was obtained in the database of a health insurance company in the north of Paraná State and categorised into administrative and technical OOP.
Rodrigues, July Anne Rossi Michelin, Cunha, Isabel Cristina Kowal Olm, Vannuchi, Marli Terezinha Oliveira, Haddad, Maria do Carmo Fernandez Lourenço   +3 more
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Is there an association between out-of-pocket hospital costs, quality and care outcomes? A systematic review of contemporary evidence

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background Out of pocket (OOP) costs vary substantially by health condition, procedure, provider, and service location. Evidence of whether this variation is associated with indicators of healthcare quality and/or health outcomes is lacking.
Ramya Walsan, Rebecca J. Mitchell, Jeffrey Braithwaite, Johanna Westbrook, Peter Hibbert, Virginia Mumford, Reema Harrison   +6 more
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Factors that affect the uptake of community-based health insurance in low-income and middle-income countries : a systematic protocol [PDF]

, 2014
Many people residing in low-income and middle-income countries (LMICs) are regularly exposed to catastrophic healthcare expenditure. It is therefore pertinent that LMICs should finance their health systems in ways that ensure that their citizens can use ...
Adebayo, E. F., Ataguba, J. E., Lamont, K. T., Okwundu, C. I., Uthman, Olalekan A., Wiysonge, C. S.   +5 more
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Out-of-pocket payments in the Austrian healthcare system – a distributional analysis [PDF]

International Journal for Equity in Health, 2015
Out-of-pocket spending is an important source of healthcare financing even in countries with established prepaid financing of healthcare. However, out-of-pocket payments (OOPP) may have undesirable effects from an equity perspective. In this study, we analyse the distributive effects of OOPP in Austria based on cross-sectional information from the ...
Alice Sanwald, Engelbert Theurl
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Out-of-Pocket Patient Payments for Public Health Care Services in Bulgaria [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health, 2015
1 Department of Health Economics and Management, Faculty of Public Health, Medical University of Varna, Varna, Bulgaria, 2 Department of Health Services Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences, CAPHRI, Maastricht University Medical Center, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands, 3 Topinstitute Evidence-Based Education Research ...
Atanasova, Elka, Pavlova, Milena, Groot, Wim   +2 more
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How do inpatients’ costs, length of stay, and quality of care vary across age groups after a new case-based payment reform in China? An interrupted time series analysis

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Context A patient classification-based payment system called diagnosis-intervention packet (DIP) was piloted in a large city in southeast China in 2018.
Ya-jing Chen, Xin-yu Zhang, Xue Tang, Jia-qi Yan, Meng-cen Qian, Xiao-hua Ying   +5 more
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Impact of Public Health Insurance on Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditures of the Near-Poor in Vietnam

Health Services Insights, 2021
Out-of-pocket payment is one of the indicators measuring the achievement of Universal Health Coverage. According to the World Health Organization, for countries from the Asia Pacific Region, out-of-pocket payments should not exceed 30%-40% of total ...
Nguyen Duc Thanh, Bui Thi My Anh, Phung Thanh Hung, Pham Quynh Anh, Chu Huyen Xiem   +4 more
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The Classification of Profiles of Financial Catastrophe Caused by Out-of-Pocket Payments: A Methodological Approach

Mathematics, 2021
The financial catastrophe resulting from the out-of-pocket payments necessary to access and use healthcare systems has been widely studied in the literature. The aim of this work is to predict the impact of the financial catastrophe a household will face
Maria-Carmen García-Centeno, Román Mínguez-Salido, Raúl del Pozo-Rubio   +2 more
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A spatial analysis of out-of-pocket payments for healthcare in Malawi

Health Policy and Planning, 2021
Abstract Out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures on health remain high in many low- and middle-income countries despite policy efforts aiming to reduce these health costs by targeting their hotspots. Hotspot targeting remains inadequate, particularly where the OOP expenditures are related across geographic regions due to unequal demand, supply ...
Martin Limbikani Mwale, Martina Mchenga, Gowokani Chijere Chirwa   +2 more
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Medical insurance payment schemes and patient medical expenses: a cross-sectional study of lung cancer patients in urban China

BMC Health Services Research, 2023
Background As the main cause of cancer death, lung cancer imposes seriously health and economic burdens on individuals, families, and the health system. In China, there is no national study analyzing the hospitalization expenditures of different payment ...
Hanxu Hu, Liying Zhao, Yang Yong, Stephen Nicholas, Elizabeth Maitland, Weihan Zhao, Hao Yan, Yong Ma, Xuefeng Shi   +8 more
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