Cost sharing is any project cost that are not reimbursed by the sponsor to support the scope of the work defined by the federal or non-federal sponsored award. The most common example of cost sharing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Joshua Cohen is a Boston-based writer who covers health policy. In the U.S. patient out-of-pocket costs for prescription drugs are ...

How should policymakers think through cost sharing in the context of Medicare expansion? One strategy is to better target cost sharing towards clinical situations with lower-value or wasteful care, ...

Editor’s note: Richard Hughes is a member of the firm Epstein Becker Green in the Health Care & Life Sciences practice and a former vice president for Moderna. In its passage of the Inflation ...

For the last nine months, Health Affairs Forefront has been delighted to feature reviews and discussion of books on health policy in our special section “Health Affairs Reads.” Today, we're excited to ...

Commercially insured rural patients have been responsible for paying a greater share of their healthcare costs than their more metropolitan counterparts, according to a study of 2012-2022 data. The ...

Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Uniform Guidance states that, “Cost sharing or matching means the portion of project costs not paid by Federal funds.” The University of Colorado Boulder (“CU ...

Cost sharing is that portion of the project or program costs that are not borne by the sponsor. There are two types of cost sharing that occur on sponsored projects, mandatory and voluntary. All ...