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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The agency estimates that the average older adult with Medicare Part B coverage who is administered one of these drugs would save $800 a year in co-payments.
    — ABC News, 2 July 2026
  • These included prohibiting states and territories from charging families’ co-payments above 7 percent of their income and allowing states to eliminate co-payments for more families.
    — Joseph Choi, The Hill, 5 Feb. 2026

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