co-payment

Pfizer has been offering patients discount cards that give them a $4 co-payment, which is less than the co-pay for all but the most popular generics, if they keep taking brand-name Lipitor rather than a generic version.

NYT > Home Page By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 2012

But Alan Johnson, the health secretary, claims that co-payment would create a two-tier NHS, with preferential treatment for patients who could afford the extra drugs.

Matthew Yglesias » 2017 2010

Our co-payment in the U.S. would have been more than that.

Access to medical specialists at Lakeside 2009

Why did HHS add this birth-control insurance mandate—along with "well-woman visits, breast-feeding support and domestic-violence screening," and "all without charging a co-payment, co-insurance or a deductible"—to its implementation of a provision of the new health-care reform law?

The Real Trouble With the Birth-Control Mandate John H. Cochrane 2012

I am a Federal employee but now a Federal Retired Disable employee, I have good health insurance but my co-payment are over the top.

Kennedy to Obama: 'There will be struggles' over health care 2009

Our co-payment in the U.S. would have been more than that.

Access to medical specialists at Lakeside 2009

Haley Barbour R said states should also be free, for instance, to compel Medicaid patients to pay for part of their medicine, saying, "We have people pull up at the pharmacy window in a BMW and say they can't afford their co-payment."

Governors differ on extent of flexibility for Medicaid 2011

Also, WellPoint is combating Pfizer's use of Lipitor discount cards that-negate a co-payment tactic insurers often employ to encourage generics.

WellPoint to Cease Branded Lipitor Coverage, Favor Generics Jon Kamp 2012

I've occasionally been late with payments before, like a co-payment at the doctor's office.

How Some Talking Dogs Cost Me $100,000 David Weidner 2011

Our co-payment in the U.S. would have been more than that.

Access to medical specialists at Lakeside 2009