The OOPE is defined as the expenditure incurred by the women during pre-natal, institutional delivery and post-natal care net of reimbursement.
Hospital prices were always lower than out-patient prices (pharmacy retail price net and reimbursement price).
OOP payments are the net of insurance reimbursement.
In theory, these costs should be net of any reimbursement from insurance.
These heuristically separable but inextricably interconnected contexts of care comprise: 1) children/parents/families; 2) community/civic social sector; 3) professional and oral health delivery system; and, 4) public 'safety net' policies and reimbursement regulations.
The relevant comparator price types applicable for medicines used in out-patient care were the ex-factory price, the pharmacy retail price net and the reimbursement price ("Kassenpreis") as of 30 September 2009: The pharmacy retail price is applicable at community pharmacy level, and the reimbursement price is the price which Austrian sickness funds pay for the medicine in the out-patient sector.
The average kidney transplant, writes David Gutierrez, cost $259,000 in the US in 2008, netting between $80,000 and $100,000 in insurance reimbursements for hospitals and doctors.. Gutierrez adds that, in July 2009, 44 US residents were arrested on charges of organ trafficking.
Continental Airlines, the No. 5 U.S. airline, posted a slim quarterly net profit including a reimbursement from the government for security fees, as the war in Iraq and weakness in the U.S. economy hurt demand for tickets.
The hospital reimbursement and net to the hospital for the Hospital based Family Practice are estimates.
A few stakeholders framed the issue of costs in terms of reimbursement and net revenue for hospitals, noting that the overall financial impact is dependent on payer mix ("It depends on what we send – if we send no-pay patients, they'll lose money and we'll do okay").
