Health Care

Cost Sharing

Provisions of an insurance policy that require the insured to pay some portion of covered expenses. Several forms of sharing are in use, e.g., deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments. Cost sharing does not refer to or include amounts paid in premiums for the coverage. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)

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Provisions of an insurance policy that require the insured to pay some portion of covered expenses. Several forms of sharing are in use, e.g., deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments. Cost sharing does not refer to or include amounts paid in premiums for the coverage. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)

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4 entry terms
  • Sharing, Cost
  • Cost-Sharing Insurance
  • Cost Sharing Insurance
  • Insurance, Cost-Sharing

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9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

restrict to insurance: sharing of costs by both insured & insurer

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History Note

92; COST SHARING INSURANCE was see DEDUCTIBLES AND COINSURANCE 1978-91

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  • Deductibles and Coinsurance (1968-1991)

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  1. N03w.219w.151.170w
  2. N03w.219w.521.576w.090w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Cost Sharing. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D017047. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D017047
  2. Cost Sharing. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_sharing
  3. Cost Sharing. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5174821