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MeSH Heading: Health Expenditures
Tree Number(s): N03.219.151.450; N05.300.385
Unique ID: D005102
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005102
Annotation: amount spent for health care: do not confuse with HEALTH CARE COSTS (actual costs of providing care) or with FEES AND CHARGES (amount charged regardless of cost)
Scope Note: The amounts spent by individuals, groups, nations, or private or public organizations for total health care and/or its various components. These amounts may or may not be equivalent to the actual costs (HEALTH CARE COSTS) and may or may not be shared among the patient, insurers, and/or employers.
Entry Term(s): Expenditure; Expenditures; Expenditures, Direct; Expenditures, Health; Expenditures, Indirect; Expenditures, Out-of-Pocket; Health Expenditure; Out Of Pocket Expenditure; Out-of Pocket Expenditures; Out-of-Pocket Cost; Out-of-Pocket Costs; Out-of-Pocket Expense; Out-of-Pocket Expenses; Out-of-Pocket Payment; Out-of-Pocket Payments; Out-of-Pocket Spending
NLM Classification #: W 74
Previous Indexing: Economics (1966-1967); Economics, Medical (1966-1967)
See Also: Health Care Costs
Public MeSH Note: 1992; see EXPENDITURES, HEALTH 1968-1991
Online Note: use HEALTH EXPENDITURES to search EXPENDITURES, HEALTH 1968-91
History Note: 1992; was EXPENDITURES, HEALTH 1968-1991
Date Established: 1968/01/01
Date of Entry: 2024/08/09
Revision Date: 2024/07/28

Allowable Qualifiers: classification (CL)

ethics (ES)

history (HI)

legislation & jurisprudence (LJ)

standards (ST)

statistics & numerical data (SN)

trends (TD)

Concept UI: M0592786
Scope Note: The portion of medical expenses a patient is responsible for paying.
Terms: Expenditures, Out-of-Pocket Preferred Term
Term UI T857329
Date03/25/2014
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2015); Out Of Pocket Expenditure
Term UI T000997666
Date11/19/2019
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2021); Out-of Pocket Expenditures
Term UI T857328
Date03/25/2014
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2015); Out-of-Pocket Cost
Term UI T000997669
Date11/19/2019
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2021); Out-of-Pocket Costs
Term UI T857331
Date03/25/2014
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2015); Out-of-Pocket Expense
Term UI T000997670
Date11/19/2019
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2021); Out-of-Pocket Expenses
Term UI T857330
Date03/25/2014
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2015); Out-of-Pocket Payment
Term UI T000997671
Date11/19/2019
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2021); Out-of-Pocket Payments
Term UI T857333
Date03/25/2014
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2015); Out-of-Pocket Spending
Term UI T857332
Date03/25/2014
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID NLM (2015)

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