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Table 1 Attributes and levels per type of health service

From: The effect of cost-sharing design characteristics on use of health care recommended by the treating physician; a discrete choice experiment

Attributes

Types of health service

Medication

Diagnostic tests

Specialist care

1) Type of payments

 Type1

Copayments

 Type2 (reference)

Coinsurances

2) Rate of payments

 Rate1

€2 / 40%

€40 / 15%

€100 / 5%

 Rate2

€4 / 50%

€50 / 20%

€140 / 7%

 Rate3 (reference)

€7 / 70%

€80 / 30%

€200 / 10%

3) Annual caps on cost-sharing

 Cap1

Half cap+

 Cap2 (reference)

Full cap+

4) Moment of payment

 Moment1

Afterwards billed by health insurer

 Moment2 (reference)

Directly at point of care

  1. +The situation with a full remaining annual cap (full cap) reflected a situation with no previously made payments while in the other situation (half cap) payments had been previously made equal to half of the annual cap. The full cap was set equal to the current Dutch deductible (in 2016, €385)