"We don't have a
population-level estimate. From prior data, it might have been $1,300 [out of
pocket per patient], on average, for hospitalization. But usually there are
follow-up visits, outpatient visits, and that per hospitalization out-of-pocket
cost sharing does not include that."
— Krutika Amin, Ph.D., associate director of the Kaiser Family
Foundation's program on the Affordable Care Act, talked with AIS's Health Plan Weekly about
why many insurers have ended their COVID-19 cost-sharing waivers, and how the
industry is in flux with estimating future costs.
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