单词 | co-payment |
释义 | co-paymentn. Insurance (originally U.S.). In medical insurance: a contribution made by the insured patients towards medical treatment (cf. co-pay n.); the payment of such contributions. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > insurance policy > associated expense, amount, or charge premio1622 premium1661 reversion1768 reversionary bonus1833 insurance1838 loading1867 hazard rate1872 single premium1877 margin1881 line1899 strain1910 deductible1927 no-claims bonus1933 co-pay1959 co-payment1966 1966 SAC Explorer (S. Alameda County, Calif., Dental Soc.) Apr. 15/2 Copayment is a valuable tool of the underwriter employed to keep gross costs within the available premium monies, but perhaps more so to reduce utilization. 1975 Med. Care 13 643 Physicians..generally did not know which patients were copayers and hence copayment had no effect on their practice. 1989 M. W. Raffel & M. G. Field Success & Crisis in National Health Syst. iii. 79 If co-payments are too large they can deter a patient from seeing the doctor when a visit ought to be made for a sound medical reason. 1996 Austral. Doctor 28 June 4/1 The AMA has conceded that the Federal Government is unlikely to allow bulk-billing GPs to charge a co-payment this year. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1966 |
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