Balancing Access and Cost Sharing Sample Clauses

Balancing Access and Cost Sharing. Balancing cost-sharing mechanisms is crucial to avoid patient non-compliance. Transitioning from user charges to prepayment models, such as taxation and insurance, can promote equity and improved health outcomes.
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Balancing Access and Cost Sharing. A systematic review on cost-sharing concluded that while measures may offer revenue generation potential and reduction in overconsumption, careful balance is required to prevent potential deterrents for patients, particularly those belonging to economically disadvantaged strata. Cost-sharing can lead to patients foregoing essential medications and to decline in health status .(43) Several studies have identified Improved access to healthcare as a result of reduction in out-of-pocket expenditure as a possible causal pathway for improved health. Reduced user charges were associated with improved health outcomes, particularly for lower-income groups and children in LMICs.(31, 43, 44) Accelerating progress towards universal health coverage through prepayment mechanisms such as taxation and insurance can lead to improved health outcomes and reduced health inequalities in LMICs. These findings highlight the importance of moving away from user charges to finance UHC, and towards contributory schemes based on prepayment through taxation and insurance contributions with large-scale risk pools that enable cross-subsidization from the healthy and wealthy to the sick and low-income groups. This evidences the importance of public finance for subsidizing the costs of healthcare for low-income and disadvantaged populations, and as an effective policy lever to reduce inequities in access and improve health outcomes. While all stand to benefit from enhanced financial protection brought about by greater reliance on prepayment and cross-subsidization, the lowest- income and less healthy populations will benefit most, as these groups are more likely to face financial hardship due to ill health. Replacing user charges with public funding or a prepayment model for these disadvantaged populations should help to reduce financial barriers to accessing care, in turn, improving health outcomes for these groups and promoting equity in health.(31, 44) In light of this well-established evidence on the need to move towards prepayment mechanism, an analysis was conducted to establish the amount each Household would need to pay for a viable decentralized RDF scheme. In this model, each facility would set up its own RDF management committee and collect funds on a monthly basis from each Household in its catchment area, the drugs would be procured from identified and approved vendors on monthly basis, the drugs would then be provided to registered members of this prepayment scheme as they p...

Related to Balancing Access and Cost Sharing

  • Additional Access Rights For the avoidance of doubt any grant of Access Rights not covered by the Grant Agreement or this Consortium Agreement shall be at the absolute discretion of the owning Party and subject to such terms and conditions as may be agreed between the owning and receiving Parties.

  • Cost Sharing a) With respect to the funding in C6.1a), should there be an amount of employee co-pay, the Trust shall advise boards what that amount shall be. Unless advised otherwise, there will be no deductions upon the Participation Date. b) Any further cost sharing or funding arrangements as per previous local collective agreements in effect as of August 31, 2014 remain status quo.

  • Single Collective Agreement a) Central terms and local terms shall together constitute a single collective agreement.

  • System Access Control Data processing systems used to provide the Cloud Service must be prevented from being used without authorization.

  • Data Sharing The GRANTEE BENEFICIARY agrees to share data with the AGENCY as deemed necessary by AGENCY, in its sole discretion, for expenditure validation, trend review, and performance monitoring.

  • System Access CUSTOMER agrees to provide to PROVIDER, at CUSTOMER’S expense, necessary access to the mainframe computer and related information technology systems (the “System”) on which CUSTOMER data is processed during the times (the “Service Hours”) specified in the PSAs, subject to reasonable downtime for utility outages, maintenance, performance difficulties and the like. In the event of a change in the Service Hours, CUSTOMER will provide PROVIDER with at least fifteen (15) calendar days written notice of such change.

  • SALES AND ORDER PROCESSING CHARGE Contractor shall sell its products to END USERS based on the pricing and terms of this Agreement. H-GAC will invoice Contractor for the applicable order processing charge when H-GAC receives notification of an END USER order. Contractor shall remit to H-GAC the full amount of the applicable order processing charge, after delivery of any product or service and subsequent END USER acceptance. Payment of the Order Processing Charge shall be remitted from Contractor to H-GAC, within thirty (30) calendar days or ten (10) business days after receipt of an END USER’s payment, whichever comes first, notwithstanding Contractor’s receipt of invoice. For sales made by Contractor based on this Agreement, including sales to entities without Interlocal Agreements, Contractor shall pay the applicable order processing charges to H-GAC. Further, Contractor agrees to encourage entities who are not members of H-GAC’s Cooperative Purchasing Program to execute an H-GAC Interlocal Agreement. H-GAC reserves the right to take appropriate actions including, but not limited to, Agreement termination if Contractor fails to promptly remit the appropriate order processing charge to H-GAC. In no event shall H-GAC have any liability to Contractor for any goods or services an END USER procures from Contractor. At all times, Contractor shall remain liable to pay to H-GAC any order processing charges on any portion of the Agreement actually performed, and for which compensation was received by Contractor.

  • Performance and Compliance with Contracts and Credit and Collection Policy The Seller shall (and shall cause the Servicer to), at its expense, timely and fully perform and comply with all material provisions, covenants and other promises required to be observed by it under the Contracts related to the Receivables, and timely and fully comply in all material respects with the applicable Credit and Collection Policies with regard to each Receivable and the related Contract.

  • Service Level Agreements If a Service or a Plan includes a Service Level Agreement (SLA): (a) we are liable for any remedy or rebate specified by the SLA; and (b) subject to clauses 40 to 42, and to the express terms of the SLA, our liability for breach of the SLA is limited to such remedy or rebate.

  • Post-Closing Access (a) Each of Seller and Buyer shall, and Buyer shall cause the Company to, preserve and keep all books and records and other information relating to the accounting, legal, Tax, regulatory, business and financial affairs of the Company and the Rolling Mill Business for a period of seven (7) years after the Closing Date (or, in the case of information relating to Taxes, until the expiration of any applicable statute of limitations), or for a longer period if (i) required by Law (including any statute of limitations and applicable extensions thereof) or any Governmental Authority or (ii) reasonably necessary with respect to the prosecution or defense of any audit or other legal or regulatory action that is then pending or threatened so long as the requesting Party has notified the other Party with prior written notice of the need to retain such books, records or information. (b) Following the Closing, for so long as such information is retained by Buyer in accordance with Section 5.8(a), Buyer shall, and shall cause the Company, to permit Seller and its authorized Representatives, at Seller’s sole cost and expense, to have reasonable access and duplication rights during normal business hours, upon reasonable prior written notice to Buyer to the information described in Section 5.8(a) to the extent that such access may be reasonably required in connection with (i) the preparation of any Tax Return, accounting records or with respect to any Tax Claim or similar proceedings, (ii) any Action relating to Seller, the Company or the Rolling Mill Business, (iii) any Governmental Filing or matter (including investigations by Governmental Authorities) or (iv) any other valid legal or business purpose. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Seller shall have no right of access to, and Buyer shall have no obligation to provide, (A) any information if doing so would reasonably be expected to (1) violate any Contract or Law to which Buyer or any of its Affiliates (including the Company) is a party or is subject, (2) result in a loss of the ability to successfully assert a claim of privilege (including the attorney-client and work product privileges), (3) result in the disclosure of any competitively sensitive information of Buyer or of any of its Affiliates (including the Company), or (4) breach a confidentiality or other obligation to a Third Party (provided that Buyer shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the consent of any Third Party with regards to such disclosure), or (B) any consolidated, combined, affiliated or unitary Tax Return which includes Buyer or any of its Affiliates (including the Company) or any Tax-related work papers. (c) Following the Closing, for so long as such information is retained by Seller in accordance with Section 5.8(a), Seller shall permit Buyer and its authorized Representatives, at Buyer’s sole cost and expense, to have reasonable access and duplication rights during normal business hours, upon reasonable prior written notice to Seller, to the information described in Section 5.8(a) to the extent that such access may be reasonably required in connection with (i) the preparation of any Tax Return, accounting records or with any Tax Claim or similar proceedings, (ii) any Action relating to the Company or the Rolling Mill Business, (iii) any Governmental Filing or matter (including investigations by Governmental Authorities) or (iv) any other valid legal or business purpose. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Buyer shall have no right of access to, and Seller shall have no obligation to provide, (A) any information if doing so would reasonably be expected to (1) violate any Contract or Law to which Seller or any of its Affiliates is a party or is subject,

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