Benefit Design in Health Care Reform: Patient Cost-Sharing
Description:
This paper examines the health services and economics literature to learn what is known about the effects of patient cost-sharing (that is, annual deductibles, coinsurance, copayments, and out-of-pocket maximurns) on patients’ use of health care services, on plan expenditures, and on patients’ health outcomes.
Date:
September 1993
Creator:
United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
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