What is the coverage of your health insurance plan? An audit of hospital billing

The provocative advice of health policymakers in endorsing private health insurance, as a critical tool for health reforms, is well-reckoned as a deterrent to mounting healthcare expenditure in the wake of the public health insurance quagmire. However, scholarly evidence has condemned the ineffectiv...

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Published in:	AIMS Public Health
Main Authors:	Aswin Sugunan, Rajasekharan Pillai K, Anice George
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	AIMS Press 2024-09-01
Subjects:	private health insurance out-of-pocket expenditure underinsurance health insurance coverage hospital billing data
Online Access:	https://www.aimspress.com/article/doi/10.3934/publichealth.2024052

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