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
• Patient co-payments and deductibles have been maxed out.
  — Arthur E Palamara, Orlando Sentinel, 14 Dec. 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
• As drug companies have raised the price of insulin, insured consumers have absorbed some of those costs in the form of higher co-payments and deductibles.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• One potential option for the Trump White House would be to require insurers to cover this cost, without co-payments, for all who want it.
  — Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 6 Mar. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• Cutting insulin list prices, capping co-payments for the insured and extending the $35 cap to the uninsured will make the medication more affordable for people who use Lilly's products.
  — Ken Alltucker, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Insurance coverage and a patient assistance program to help with co-payments are critical to access.
  — Joshua Cohen, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024
• Your Medicare supplement plan — also known as a Medigap plan — is designed to cover some or all of the costs not paid by traditional Medicare, including co-payments, co-insurance and deductibles.
  — Liz Weston, oregonlive, 26 Aug. 2023
• Your Medicare supplement plan — also known as a Medigap plan — is designed to cover some or all of the costs not paid by traditional Medicare, including co-payments, co-insurance and deductibles.
  — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Aug. 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
• 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
• Before the payment pause, Ms. Dorn had been relying on her credit card to cover expenses like an unexpected emergency-room visit, veterinary bills, health care co-payments and new car tires.
  — Jacqui Germain, New York Times, 22 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
• 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
• Coverage with lower premiums often carry high deductibles and co-payments.
  — Noah Weiland, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2024
• Of state prison residents, 90% were in facilities requiring co-payments, including 63% in facilities with co-payments exceeding one week's prison wage.
  — Tina Reed, Axios, 6 Aug. 2024
• The county Department of Health Services had previously cautioned that waiving co-payments under Medicare could put hospitals at risk of being booted from federal programs.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• Americans pay more for health care than any other country and over the past five years, spending on insurance premiums, out-of-pocket co-payments, pharmaceuticals and hospital services has increased, government data shows.
  — Stephanie Kelly and Julie Steenhuysen, USA TODAY, 10 Dec. 2024
• Over the past five years, U.S. spending on insurance premiums, out-of-pocket co-payments, pharmaceuticals and hospital services has also increased, government data shows.
  — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 18 Dec. 2024
• Sanders has also called for expanding Medicare with improved and comprehensive benefits, covering dental, hearing and vision care and phasing out insurance premiums, deductibles and co-payments.
  — Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 2 Jan. 2025