Patients with multiple chronic diseases face higher out-of-pocket expenses
Tackling each disease in isolation may lead to the prescription of unnecessary medicines, resulting in expenses that are disproportionate to the number of conditions a patient has. These out-of-pocket expenditures (OOPE), which are costs not covered by insurance, increase dramatically with the number of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) a patient has, according to a study led by SSHSPH and the University of Melbourne that was recently published in BMJ Global Health. The team systematically reviewed 14 studies across Australia, Canada, India, South Korea and USA, and found that when compared to patientsRead more
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