co-payment

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co-payment

Managed Care That portion of a claim or medical expense that a health plan member must pay out-of-pocket for specific medical services–eg, hospital care, drugs, office visits, etc; the insurer pays the remaining portion

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Catastrophic Benefits co-insurance copayment cost share covered charges deductible HMO incentive program indemnity insurance insurance only billing out-of-plan services out-of-pocket costs overbilling point-of-service plan predetermination Seniors' Health			A co-payment is basically a sort of cost-sharing agreement beneath which a recipient promises to pay a particular dollar amount for the recommended drug. Have Sensible Sense of Medicare Part D Plans by Ricky Hussey / Health, general community O'Brien's ongoing effort to reduce the city's health insurance costs, he is implementing some co-payment changes for those municipal employees who are members of Local 495, National Association of Government Employees. Health insurance co-pays imposed; City's union members promised lower ... by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) In 2008, it covers Medicare's $256 daily co-payment for days 61 to 90 in a hospital. The ABCs of Picking a Medigap Policy by Kimberly Lankford, Contributing Editor, Kiplinger's Personal Finance / Kiplinger.com			CNRN CNRS CNS CNS abscess CNS depressant CNS leukemia CNS metastases CNS sympathomimetic CNS syndrome CNS tumor CNSN Co CO 2 co- Co-Author co-carcinogen co-counseling Co-Dependency co-dominance co-dominant gene action co-insurance Co-Investigator co-localization co-medication CO-oximeter co-payment co-sleeping co-stimulation Co-Surgery co-trimoxazole CO2 CO2 laser ablation CoA coacervate coacervation coaching coactivated T cells COAD coadaptation coagglutination coagglutinin coagulability coagulable coagulant coagulase coagulate coagulated Coagulating factors coagulation coagulation cascade coagulation current			co-ordination number co-ordination numbers co-ordination numbers co-ordinative co-ordinative co-ordinative co-ordinator co-ordinator co-ordinator co-ordinators co-ordinators co-ordinators co-own Co-Owned Location co-owner co-owners Co-ownership Co-Ownership of Real Estate CO-oximeter CO-PA Co-parceners co-parent co-parenting co-partner co-partners co-partnership co-partnerships Co-pay Co-pay Co-pay co-payment co-phasing Co-phenotrope Co-phenotrope CO-PI Co-pilot Co-pilot Co-pilot Co-Pilot Gunner co-piloted co-piloting co-pilots Co-plaintiff Co-plaintiff Co-plaintiff Co-plaintiff Co-plaintiff Co-Planar Strip Co-Planar Waveguide CO-POL Co-Polar Attenuation Co-Polarized Monopulse Co-precipitation co-presidency co-president Co-Principal Author Co-Principal Author Co-Principal Investigator Co-Processing Node Architecture for Parallel Systems Co-processor Co-processor

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