单词 | co-payment |
释义 | co-payment, n. Insurance (orig. U.S.). Brit. |ˈkəʊˌpeɪm(ə)nt|, U.S. |ˈkoʊˌpeɪmənt| [‹ co- prefix + payment n.1 Compare slightly earlier co-pay n.] In medical insurance: a contribution made by the insured patients towards medical treatment (cf. co-pay n.); the payment of such contributions.
1966SAC 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. 1975Med. Care 13 643 Physicians..generally did not know which patients were copayers and hence copayment had no effect on their practice. 1989M. 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. 1996Austral. 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. |

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