Monthly Cost-Sharing Limits and Out-of-pocket Costs for Commercially Insured Patients in the US-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Monthly Cost-Sharing Limits and Out-of-pocket Costs for Commercially Insured Patients in the US

Published:2022-09-15 Issue:9 Volume:5 Page:e2233006
ISSN:2574-3805
Container-title:JAMA Network Open
language:en
Short-container-title:JAMA Netw Open

Author:

Shafer Paul R.¹,Horný Michal²,Dusetzina Stacie B.³

Affiliation:

1. Department of Health Law, Policy, and Management, School of Public Health, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts

2. Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of Medicine, Department of Health Policy and Management, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

3. Department of Health Policy, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee

Abstract

This cross-sectional study assesses how much monthly cost-sharing limits, as opposed to annual limits, could reduce out-of-pocket costs for commercially insured patients in the US.

Publisher

American Medical Association (AMA)

Subject

General Medicine

Link

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/articlepdf/2796281/shafer_2022_ld_220210_1662491199.39924.pdf

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