| It checks that the patient has valid health insurance and verifies his copayment before he comes in. |
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| If a modest patient copayment were imposed, many prescriptions could be provided at zero cost to the taxpayer. |
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| Patients are required to pay a copayment for services provided by hospital-owned outpatient wound care departments. |
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| The price consumers have to pay now is often higher than the insurance copayment they were responsible for when the drug was prescription-only. |
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| In effect, the taxes act as an unofficial copayment for participants with other taxable income. |
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| A principal feature of the healthcare philosophy is that of individual responsibility for health and the need for copayment for services provided. |
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| A 30-baht copayment for every treatment is something the poorest illiterate farmer in north-east Thailand can understand. |
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| A copayment, called the 'ticket modérateur', remains the responsibility of the insured. |
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| Provincial deductible and copayment charges are included as eligible expenses. |
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| Another factor having a bearing on the drug consumption of patients is the amount of the copayment since this does affect how much is purchased. |
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| We are often asked about the benefit year for various public drug plans as well as the patient copayment and deductibles. |
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| Abolish copayment for the unemployed, students, the handicapped, and poor pensioners. |
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| For example, if the policy requires a co-payment, billing the insurer for the services without charging the client for the copayment is improper. |
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| Patients are covered by a variety of insurers, all of whom offer several plans, for which any individual patient has a different copayment and deductible, which he may or may not have met. |
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| We are also happy to accept that the insurance company pay its share of the fee directly to our office, so that you only pay the deductible or copayment portion at the time of treatment. |
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| We modeled cost-sharing using the office copayment amount, as cost-sharing amounts for different services are highly collinear. |
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| Accordingly, by Dr. Chen's method of calculation, the copayment experience would have to be deemed even more pound-foolish than we found it to be. |
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| The copayment is aimed at discouraging abuse and overuse of the system. |
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