Sentence examples for gap payments from inspiring English sources

Also the gap payments for some tests, drugs and services are another source of OOPE.

The main outcome measures were PBS costs, claims, co-payments and scripts presented, and MBS total costs, claims and gap payments for medical services in 2005.

Once a patient's out-of-pocket expenses reach a threshold amount in any given year, any further gap payments are covered by government through a Safety Net program.

Regarding gap payments, 5 to 10%% of the war widows in this study still chose to pay a gap despite theoretically not needing to.

However overall, these Gold Card holders were much less likely to incur gap payments: the adjusted odds ratios ranged from 469595 % CIs 21, 102) for recent widows to 76 (95 % CIs 37, 156) for longer-term widows (Table  5).

The outcomes used in this study were: total cost of medical services (including gap payment made by women); total number of claims for MBS subsidized medical services; total gap payments; number of GP visits; total costs of pharmaceuticals (PBS/RPBS); number of pharmaceutical claims; number of pharmaceutical scripts presented; and total co-payments for pharmaceuticals.

For the MBS gap payment, this outcome was dichotomized into whether a gap payment was made or not as the data were skewed.

Our study potentially incentivised the GP visit by offering to pay for any gap to ensure equity of access for all, however if the intervention was applied in practice any gap payment might reduce the number of relatives seeking GP CVD risk assessment.

Unit costs will be derived from data obtained from Medicare Australia regarding Medicare Benefits Schedule (MBS) and Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) claims (i.e., net cost, rebate, gap payment) for each participant for the study duration, and from Australian Refined Diagnosis Related Groups (AR-DRG) cost weights [ 21].

Rather than plug the gap all at once, the district spread payments out over 20 years.

Curiously enough, the huge gap in payments didn't cause much trouble among neighbors, at least at first.