COPAYMENTS OF THE CITIZENS IN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE
Abstract
The growth of cost of healthcare services becomes more and more serious problem throughout the world. In the context of no limitations with respect to both scope of consumption and cost of the services, due to application of innovational treatment methods, the cost of medical aid, rendered to the citizens free of charge, has almost no upper limit. In light of this, the alternative strategies of more efficient and fair funding of healthcare, being the subject of this article, are searched throughout the world.
Keywords
Costs sharing,
methods of cost sharing,
regulator of medical aid scope,
copayments,
copays,
coinsurance,
deductibles,
international practice,
healthcare model,
healthcare system,
medical aid funding and management,
sources of healthcare funding,
characteristics of healthcare systems in various countries of the world,
guarantees of safety
About the Authors
A. P. Tatarinov
Research Institute of Finance, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Moscow
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Researcher of the Center for Technology Assessment in Health Care of the Institute of Applied Economic Research of RANEPA, Head of the Health Care Finance Center of the Research Financial Institute of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. Address: Nastasiinsky lane d. 3 p. 2, Moscow, Russia, 127006. Tel.: +7(495)6998965
D. V. Lukyantseva
Research Institute of Finance, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Moscow
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
PhD, Senior Researcher of the Center for Technology Assessment in Health Care of the Institute of Applied Economic Research of RANEPA, Head of the Health Care Finance Center of the Research Financial Institute of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. Address: Nastasiinsky lane d. 3 p. 2, Moscow, Russia, 127006. Tel.: +7(495)6998965
L. S. Melnikova
Research Institute of Finance, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Moscow
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
MD, Leading research fellow of Research Financial Institution of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. Address: Nastasiinsky lane d. 3 p. 2, Moscow, Russia, 127006. Tel.: +74956998965
V. V. Omelyanovskii
Research Institute of Finance, Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Moscow
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
MD, Professor, Director of the Center for Technology Assessment in Health Care of the Institute of Applied Economic Research of RANEPA, Head of the Health Care Finance Center of the Research Financial Institute of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. Address: Nastasiinsky lane d. 3 p. 2, Moscow, Russia, 127006. Tel.: +74999569528
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Tatarinov A.P., Lukyantseva D.V., Melnikova L.S., Omelyanovskii V.V. COPAYMENTS OF THE CITIZENS IN HEALTHCARE SYSTEM: INTERNATIONAL PRACTICE. FARMAKOEKONOMIKA. Modern Pharmacoeconomics and Pharmacoepidemiology. 2016;9(3):60-67. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.17749/2070-4909.2016.9.3.060-067
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