Health Care

Personal Financing

Payment by individuals or their family for health care services which are not covered by a third-party payer, either insurance or medical assistance.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Payment by individuals or their family for health care services which are not covered by a third-party payer, either insurance or medical assistance.

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Synonyms

5 entry terms
  • Financing, Personal
  • Personal Expenditures
  • Expenditure, Personal
  • Expenditures, Personal
  • Personal Expenditure

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Aspects Covered

10 allowable subheadings

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

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Indexing Annotation

restricted to a person's payment of health care expenditures: read MeSH definition; not for the personal finances of physicans & other health care professionals: index under PHYSICIANS; DENTISTS; NURSES; PHARMACISTS; etc., for personal non-professional expenses or under PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, MEDICAL; PRACTICE MANAGEMENT, DENTAL & similar headings for finances assoc with professional practice

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History Note

68

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Previous Indexing

  • Economics (1966-1967)

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  1. N03w.219w.559

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Personal Financing. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D005382. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D005382
  2. Personal Financing. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q70449953