Descriptor English: | Cost Sharing | ||||||
Descriptor Spanish: |
Seguro de Costos Compartidos
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Descriptor Portuguese: | Custo Compartilhado de Seguro | ||||||
Descriptor French: | Participation aux coûts | ||||||
Entry term(s): |
Cost Sharing Insurance Cost-Sharing Insurance Insurance, Cost-Sharing Sharing, Cost |
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Tree number(s): |
N03.219.151.170 N03.219.521.576.090 |
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RDF Unique Identifier: | https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D017047 | ||||||
Scope note: | Provisions of an insurance policy that require the insured to pay some portion of covered expenses. Several forms of sharing are in use, e.g., deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments. Cost sharing does not refer to or include amounts paid in premiums for the coverage. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed) |
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Annotation: | restrict to insurance: sharing of costs by both insured & insurer |
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Allowable Qualifiers: |
CL classification EC economics ES ethics HI history LJ legislation & jurisprudence MT methods SN statistics & numerical data ST standards TD trends |
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Previous Indexing: |
Deductibles and Coinsurance (1968-1991) |
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Public MeSH Note: | 92; COST SHARING INSURANCE was see DEDUCTIBLES AND COINSURANCE 1978-91 |
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Online Note: | use DEDUCTIBLES AND COINSURANCE to search COST SHARING INSURANCE 1978-91 |
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History Note: | 92; COST SHARING INSURANCE was see DEDUCTIBLES AND COINSURANCE 1978-91 |
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Related: |
Health Benefit Plans, Employee
MeSH Managed Care Programs MeSH | ||||||
DeCS ID: | 30175 | ||||||
Unique ID: | D017047 | ||||||
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): | Click here to access the VHL documents | ||||||
Date Established: | 1992/01/01 | ||||||
Date of Entry: | 1991/06/20 | ||||||
Revision Date: | 1993/09/16 |
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Cost Sharing
- Preferred
Cost-Sharing Insurance
- Narrower
Concept UI |
M0025903 |
Scope note | Provisions of an insurance policy that require the insured to pay some portion of covered expenses. Several forms of sharing are in use, e.g., deductibles, coinsurance, and copayments. Cost sharing does not refer to or include amounts paid in premiums for the coverage. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed) |
Preferred term | Cost Sharing |
Entry term(s) |
Sharing, Cost |
Concept UI |
M0025902 |
Preferred term | Cost-Sharing Insurance |
Entry term(s) |
Cost Sharing Insurance Insurance, Cost-Sharing |
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