How to Use co-payment in a Sentence

co-payment

noun

• 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
• 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, oregonlive, 26 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, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 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
• 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
• 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

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024