How to Use co-payment in a Sentence

co-payment

noun

• Even those with Medicare must pay deductibles and co-payments.
  — Howard Gleckman, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• The Bridge co-payment is flat at $50 a month with no exceptions.
  — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
• These high prices lead to more spending on cancer drugs, and higher co-payments and deductibles for patients with cancer.
  — Mark J. Ratain, STAT, 3 Mar. 2026
• If a family receives a state subsidy, their co-payment is capped at 7% of their household income.
  — Nicole Santa Cruz, ProPublica, 5 Jan. 2024
• The only way patients would agree to such an outrageous fee is if the surgical center offered to waive the co-payment.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2023
• Out-of-pocket expenses include deductibles, co-payments and other amounts.
  — Kelly Phillips Erb, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• Under this coverage, patients are charged a small co-payment or a percentage of a drug’s cost, usually 5%.
  — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 16 Jan. 2025
• Medicare recipients will also have the new option of spreading their payments out over the course of the year, rather than paying a large co-payment all at once.
  — Berkeley Lovelace Jr., NBC News, 25 Dec. 2024
• Here, affordability relates to patients’ out-of-pocket costs in the form of premiums and co-payments.
  — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
• Additionally, out-of-pocket costs for patients will go up for most, including deductibles and co-payments.
  — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• Beneficiaries pay a flat co-payment of $50 per month, regardless of income.
  — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• And under the program, the $50 co-payment under the program would remain the same no matter the dose of the medication.
  — Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 1 June 2026
• Coverage with lower premiums often carry high deductibles and co-payments.
  — Noah Weiland, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• Insurance coverage and a patient assistance program to help with co-payments are critical to access.
  — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• Even with no-cost premiums, ACA plans typically require a deductible or co-payments.
  — Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 17 Nov. 2025
• Some families were previously paying up to 10% of their income in co-payments toward the state’s child-care subsidies.
  — Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• Medigap plans can cover some cataract surgery costs that Original Medicare doesn’t—like co-payments, co-insurance and deductibles.
  — Byrichard Eisenberg, Fortune Well, 4 July 2023
• Some took the opportunity to permanently change their co-payment schedules moving forward so that families will face lower costs.
  — Bryce Covert, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2023
• While the new contract is in effect, healthcare coverage costs, benefits and prescription drug co-payments will remain fixed for members and their dependents.
  — Christi Carras, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2024
• If eligible, beneficiaries pay a flat co-payment of $50 per month, regardless of income.
  — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
• Panama has a two-tier health care system with public and private hospitals, clinics, and doctors, both requiring co-payments for services, with lower costs in the public system.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 19 May 2024
• Medigap, which is purchased from a private health insurance company, helps cover out-of-pocket expenses such as co-payments, co-insurance and deductibles.
  — Michelle Singletary, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
• For example, patients’ co-payments can climb into the thousands for power wheelchairs and breathing ventilators, Brigance said.
  — Maya Lora, Baltimore Sun, 24 Mar. 2023
• Panama has a two-tier healthcare system with public and private hospitals, clinics, and doctors, both requiring co-payments for services, with lower costs in the public system.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 10 June 2023
• Furthermore, $50 co-payments do not count towards a beneficiary’s deductible or out-of-pocket maximum.
  — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026
• With insurance coverage, patient co-payments are generally under $100 a month.
  — Joshua P. Cohen, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• Managing risk Students will analyze different types of insurance, the factors that affect premiums — such as co-payments and deductibles — and compare plans.
  — Lauren Lumpkin, Washington Post, 19 Nov. 2023
• Medicare on Thursday noted that enrollees in its Original Medicare will have to pay a co-payment of 20% of the cost of the drug, after meeting their deductible.
  — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 10 July 2023
• At least 25 states and the District of Columbia have implemented monthly co-payment caps to help offset expenses for diabetics.
  — Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
• Starting November 1, families across New Mexico will no longer face income restrictions or co-payments for child care assistance.
  — Aliss Higham, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Sep. 2025