Exempel på cost-sharing

• 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.

• These payments include the patient cost-sharing contributions.

• Lowincome workers could be given the choice of picking specific benefits from a list of options, utilising cost-sharing between the government, the employer and the employee.

• This includes contracts issued to nominated individuals, low-value contracts where the costs of a competition would outweigh potential savings, and cost-sharing contracts.

• I understand that many processors and suppliers have agreed and are currently operating cost-sharing arrangements.

• I believe if there were that kind of cost-sharing we might, at least in part, overcome our principal problem.

• However, we are aware of the concerns of many about the effect of cost-sharing.

• Where proposals are supported, this is usually on some mutually acceptable cost-sharing basis.