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Table 1 Different types of costs from two perspectives

From: Cost of illness of chronic kidney disease in Lebanon: from the societal and third-party payer perspectives

 

Direct medical costs: medications, diagnostic tests (laboratory and imaging), inpatient and outpatient care

Direct non-medical costs: transportation costs, social services

Indirect costs: productivity losses or opportunity costs due to morbidity

Societal Perspective

All costs covered by the patient and third-party payers

All costs

All costs

Third-Party Payer Perspective

Covered costs

Not included

Not included