The eligibility criteria include being a member for three years and meeting a threshold of expenditure.
About 2.7 million are thought to be meet the criteria – which includes a threshold of expenditure – out of an estimated 6 million members.
Around 2.6 million are thought to meet the criteria, which includes being a member for three years and meeting a threshold of expenditure.
Some households are tipped into financial catastrophe when the OOP expenditure exceeds a threshold of household expenditure.
Household's total out-of-pocket health expenditure (T) is defined as catastrophic if it exceeds a specified fraction (threshold) of total household expenditure (x) or total non-food expenditure [ x-f (x)].
Financial hardship will be assessed by analysing the extent of catastrophic health expenditures, at 40% threshold of non-food household expenditure.
WHO recommends a maximum OOP expenditure threshold of 15 20 % of total health care expenditure as a requirement for financial protection [ 2].
The 2012 expenditure data including the threshold for large expenditures were deflated using the consumer price index of the GOI 38 to reflect 2004 prices.
Over half of participants (55.9%) exceeded the minimal energy expenditure threshold of 1,800 kcal/week for slowing the progression of coronary artery stenosis [ 30].
Logistic regression models were used to assess the association between LIS status and a) adherence to diabetes, anti-hypertensive, and lipid lowering medications (which was defined as a PDC of ≥80%), and b) reaching the 2006 Medicare Part D coverage gap expenditure threshold of $2,250.
Thus total OOP health care payments in excess of a certain threshold of household resources (household income, expenditure or consumption) are catastrophic.
