How to Use coinsurance in a Sentence

coinsurance

noun

• First step: Don't pay the bill (aside from a copay or coinsurance) for care or services preapproved by insurance.
  — Elisabeth Rosenthal, CBS News, 17 July 2024
• While the prospect of paying down your deductible and facing high coinsurance feels daunting at the start of the year, use the reset as a time to review what your plan covers.
  — Nick Blackmer, Verywell Health, 15 Feb. 2023
• Next, look at cost share—what are the deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance of each plan option available.
  — Megan Leonhardt, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2022
• If a drug company raises the drug price above the rate of inflation, a consumer's coinsurance amount would be capped up to the inflation rate.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
• One required patients to pay 30 percent of the cost of fillings and extractions as coinsurance.
  — Andrea K. McDaniels, baltimoresun.com, 10 July 2017
• The cost for this type of therapy depends on whether or not insurance is covering it and what the deductible or coinsurance plan is.
  — Claire Sibonney, SELF, 29 Sep. 2021
• This account, by the way, can be used to pay out-of-pocket deductibles, copayments or coinsurance under all parts of Medicare.
  — John C. Goodman, Forbes, 28 Jan. 2022
• Be sure to note whether prescriptions require a copayment, which is a flat dollar amount, or coinsurance, which is a percentage of the drug cost.
  — Julie Appleby, CBS News, 16 Oct. 2023
• The authors recommend that patients should be charged flat-dollar copays rather than coinsurance charges, which are based on a percentage of the drug’s price.
  — Sarah Jane Tribble, Kaiser Health News, 30 May 2017
• Also, with rising deductibles and rising coinsurance, much more of the price is being paid by insured people.
  — Jeanne Pinder, Philly.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• Most workers that need care or prescription drugs have substantial co-payments or coinsurance to deal with as well.
  — Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2019
• With a monthly price tag approaching $2,000, many private health plans have put the drug in a specialty drug tier with high copayments or coinsurance.
  — Michelle Andrews, chicagotribune.com, 2 Aug. 2019
• With this rule, insurers will not be allowed to charge copays, deductible payments, or coinsurance for PrEP.
  — Sarah Jacob, SELF, 22 July 2021
• Deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance are all types of cost-sharing.
  — Elaine Hinzey, Verywell Health, 17 Dec. 2023
• Hearing aids were promised to them at no cost, and the Andersons said their company would waive any copayments, coinsurance or deductibles.
  — Loyd Brumfield, Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2019
• Although most facilities will bill for their services, some may ask for the upfront payment of copay or coinsurance costs.
  — Jennifer Whitlock, Rn, Msn, Fn, Verywell Health, 24 Oct. 2023
• With oral cancer medicines, including ones that can change the prognosis for patients, Dr. Doshi studied how out-of-pocket costs for the drugs — co-pays, coinsurance and deductibles — affected use of the drugs.
  — Francesca Paris, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• Meanwhile, every Medicare Part D plan uses coinsurance for high-cost drugs, requiring patients to pay a percentage of the list price.
  — WSJ, 23 Oct. 2018
• Workers also have paid a larger share of their heath costs through co-pays, deductibles and coinsurance that require people to pay a percentage of their medical bill.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 11 Nov. 2021
• Specifically, some patients pay full price until reaching a deductible; others pay coinsurance as a percentage of the list price rather than a flat co-pay.
  — Robin Feldman, STAT, 23 Nov. 2020
• Insurance plans require people to pay deductibles, co-pays and coinsurance, and those out-of-pocket costs are unaffordable for many.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2022
• Costs that those covered must pay, including deductibles, coinsurance and out-of-pocket maximums, have risen in recent years.
  — Christina Caron, New York Times, 11 Feb. 2020
• Consumers typically must pay coinsurance equal to 20% of their Part B drug costs after reaching their deductible.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 10 Feb. 2023
• The other $3,020 consisted of deductibles, co-payments and coinsurance.
  — Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2019
• FSAs got their start as a workplace perk through the Revenue Act of 1978, which allowed employees to set aside tax-free dollars to pay for medical expenses like deductibles and coinsurance.
  — Janet Adamy, WSJ, 23 Dec. 2018
• Anthem will stop waiving the cost of copays, coinsurance, and deductibles for virtual visits not related to Covid-19.
  — Aidin Vaziri, SFChronicle.com, 29 Sep. 2020
• Most Alzheimer’s patients are on Medicare, a program that is legally barred from negotiating a better price and which charges patients a 20% coinsurance.
  — Natalie Shure, The New Republic, 14 June 2021
• What money does come home increasingly goes back out as health care deductibles, copayments and coinsurance.
  — H. Gilbert Welch and Elliott Fisher, CNN, 11 May 2017
• Why does the classification matter? Outpatients can face higher payments for drugs and coinsurance, but the big-ticket item is nursing home care.
  — Paula Span, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
• The system is mostly publicly funded through taxpayer dollars, with some aspects of the system requiring self-pay or coinsurance.
  — Devika Rao, theweek, 5 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 26 Oct 2024