Impact of co-payment for outpatient utilization among Medical Aid beneficiaries in Korea: A 5-year time series study

Ki-Bong Yoo, Hong-Uk Ahn, Eun-Cheol Park, Tae Hyun Kim, Sun Jung Kim, Jeoung A Kwon and Sang Gyu Lee

Health Policy, 2016, vol. 120, issue 8, 960-966

Abstract: The Korean government implemented an outpatient co-payment scheme in July 2007 to control Medical-Aid beneficiaries’ overutilization of healthcare services.

Keywords: Cost sharing; Co-payment; Medical-Aid; Medical services; Segmented regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2016.07.001

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