Analysis of PLWH switching to medical insurance ART: a cross-sectional study in six Chinese provinces by Jingkun Hu, Wenting Kang, Jiahuan Guo, Jie Xu, Houlin Tang, Decai Zhao, Xinlun Wang, Peng Xu, Fan Lyu, Guang Zhang

“…The differences between PLWH who switched to medical insurance ART and those who did not were statistically significant (p < 0.05) in education, occupation, type of basic medical insurance, average annual income of family members, personal annual income, changes in personal annual income, whether is the government medical aid recipient or households registered as living under the poverty line, year of initiating ART, level of ART hospital, distance to ART hospital, and whether adverse medicine reactions occur. …”
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PERFORMANCE AND EFFECTIVENESS IN INSURANCE COMPANIES by MIRELA MONEA

“…We will discuss the main efficiency indicators helping us to understand the effectiveness of insurance activity, such as: damage ratio, cost of insurance activity; net income ratio, liquidity ratio, solvency ratio, risk coverage ratio, damage coverage ratio, claims rejection ratio, average amount insured, average written premium. …”
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Healthcare resource utilization and caregiver burden associated with rotavirus gastroenteritis hospitalizations in Taiwan by Yhu-Chering Huang, Chih-Hsien Chuang, Chia-Jung Hsieh, Chiu-Mei Hsieh, Ying Hui Wu, Questa Lin, Joanne Lin, Fei Qin, Janine Verstraete, Michael Herdman, Cristina Carias

“…The total medical costs associated with hospitalization, reimbursed by National Health Insurance, averaged US$575.56. Additional out-of-pocket costs included US$82.51 for medical visits, US$44.95 for transportation, US$5.47 for medication, and US$90.41 for meals outside the home. …”
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