Direct health expenditure excludes payments of healthcare plans and was assessed by the sum of total payments for medications, hospitalizations, medical and other health professional visits, nursing home care, health exams, orthopedic and other medical supplies and other health services and supplies.
From the viewpoint of SBSs, the most important criterion is a total revenue; it is defined as the sum of payments from MUs [15].
Total health care costs were defined as the sum of payments made by the mandatory health insurance for outpatient and inpatient care per patient/year.
Total health care expenditure, as defined in MEPS, was the sum of direct payments for care provided during the year, including out-of-pocket payments and payments by private insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, and other sources.
Provider expenditures are defined as the sum of claims payments made within the scope of the program, including co-payments.
In contrast, the accounting method seeks to find a payment of a number of extra time units charged to each individual operation such that the sum of the payments is an upper bound on the total actual cost.
DEBTPAYMENT is defined as the sum of interest payments, divided by total assets.
To do so, we calculate these costs, determine the sum of Medicare payments and their proportion of total healthcare spending, and evaluate the incidence of ADRs, characteristics of hospitalized ADR patients, and outcomes of ADRs in China.
Families also sometimes calculate the value of a stream of future payments incorrectly by summing the total payments, instead of appropriately discounting future payments.
In 2009, the state awarded him lump sum payments totaling more than $2 million, and a monthly annuity of more than $11,000.
The final co-payment is calculated as the total payment minus the amount of the refund.
