Out-of-Pocket Medical Expenses and Retirement SecurityKathleen McgarryJonathan Skinner
CANBERRA, April 16 (Xinhua) -- Australians are spending 34 billion Australian dollars (24.3 billion U.S. dollars) every year on out-of-pocket medical costs, a government report has revealed. According to the data, released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) and reported...
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Panel on Poverty and Family Assistance ar- gued that the current official U.S. poverty measure should be updated to capture changes in the population's healthcare costs and needs; families with sufficiently high medical out-of- pocket (MOOP) expenditures ...
You may have to deal with out-of-pocket medical bills after a car accident, even if you have a good insurance policy.
This paper estimates the impact of medical out-of-pocket expenses on families' well-being using the Survey of Income and Program Participation. Medical out-of-pocket expenses include the out-of-pocket costs from medical services and the family's share of health insurance premiums. Demographic char...
Financial considerations may impact the pregnancy decisions of expectant parents who receive a positive prenatal screening test result for Down syndrome (DS). This study estimates the out-of-pocket health care costs for parents associated with raising a child with DS between birth and 18 years of ...
When out-of-pocket medical bills from first childbirth are more than American families can afford to pay, they may postpone having a second child. This finding may be particularly true when childbirth medical bills are sent to debt collection agencies.Access...
We examined out-of-pocket medical spending by persons with and without chronic conditions using data from the 1996 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS). Our results show that mean out-of-pocket spending increased with the number of chronic conditions. The level of this spending also varied by...
(HealthDay)—Cancer survivors have significantly higher annual out-of-pocket medical expenditures than individuals without a cancer history, according to research published in the June 7 issue of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Morbid
out-of-pocket maximum指的是自己掏这一部分的上限。举个例子，医疗费用为4000，deductible是1000， 保险公司报销50%，out-of-pocket maximum是2000。本来自己要掏的部分是1000（deductible）+ 1500（未报销的50%×3000）=2500。但是2500已经超过out-of-pocket maximum（2000）了，那么自己只用掏2000，剩...