0 a situation in which two or more organizations pay the cost of something together:
Cost-sharing between the federal government and states for particular projects is often the most sensible option.
As a means of enhancing competition among drug producers, a new scheme of cost-sharing was introduced in 1993.
Supply-side cost-containment becomes a necessary and increasingly important adjunct to demand-side cost-sharing.
In effect, the lowered premiums, enriched benefit packages, and reduced cost-sharing characteristic of early managed care products could no longer be 'financed' by provider discounts.
The expansion was mainly financed by state revenue generated from continuous economic growth rather than increases in taxation or any contributory or cost-sharing schemes.
That attempts to contain costs by reducing access or increasing cost-sharing may not always be appropriate has also been argued.
Rather, to the extent that cost control has produced strains, it has resulted mainly in higher consumer cost-sharing.
This has the most extensive benefits and very low cost-sharing requirements.
Efforts to reduce cost-related underuse by lowering co-payments seems unlikely in the near term, given the widespread trend to increase co-payments and patient cost-sharing.
