How to Use co-payment in a Sentence
co-payment
noun-
Coverage with lower premiums often carry high deductibles and co-payments.
— Noah Weiland, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024 -
Insurance coverage and a patient assistance program to help with co-payments are critical to access.
— Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024 -
The only way patients would agree to such an outrageous fee is if the surgical center offered to waive the co-payment.
— Robert Pearl, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023 -
As drug companies have raised the price of insulin, insured consumers have absorbed some of those costs in the form of higher co-payments and deductibles.
— Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023 -
If a family receives a state subsidy, their co-payment is capped at 7% of their household income.
— Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 5 Jan. 2024 -
Medicare on Thursday noted that enrollees in its Original Medicare will have to pay a co-payment of 20% of the cost of the drug, after meeting their deductible.
— Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 July 2023 -
Medigap plans can cover some cataract surgery costs that Original Medicare doesn’t—like co-payments, co-insurance and deductibles.
— Byrichard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 4 July 2023 -
Some families were previously paying up to 10% of their income in co-payments toward the state’s child-care subsidies.
— Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023 -
Cutting insulin list prices, capping co-payments for the insured and extending the $35 cap to the uninsured will make the medication more affordable for people who use Lilly's products.
— Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023 -
Panama has a two-tier healthcare system with public and private hospitals, clinics, and doctors, both requiring co-payments for services, with lower costs in the public system.
— Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2023 -
Your Medicare supplement plan — also known as a Medigap plan — is designed to cover some or all of the costs not paid by traditional Medicare, including co-payments, co-insurance and deductibles.
— Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 2023 -
Your Medicare supplement plan — also known as a Medigap plan — is designed to cover some or all of the costs not paid by traditional Medicare, including co-payments, co-insurance and deductibles.
— Liz Weston, oregonlive, 26 Aug. 2023 -
For example, patients’ co-payments can climb into the thousands for power wheelchairs and breathing ventilators, Brigance said.
— Maya Lora, Baltimore Sun, 24 Mar. 2023 -
Medigap, which is purchased from a private health insurance company, helps cover out-of-pocket expenses such as co-payments, co-insurance and deductibles.
— Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023 -
Before the payment pause, Ms. Dorn had been relying on her credit card to cover expenses like an unexpected emergency-room visit, veterinary bills, health care co-payments and new car tires.
— Jacqui Germain, New York Times, 22 July 2023 -
Some took the opportunity to permanently change their co-payment schedules moving forward so that families will face lower costs.
— Bryce Covert, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2023 -
Managing risk Students will analyze different types of insurance, the factors that affect premiums — such as co-payments and deductibles — and compare plans.
— Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023 -
The county Department of Health Services had previously cautioned that waiving co-payments under Medicare could put hospitals at risk of being booted from federal programs.
— Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
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