Dictionary
The Dictionary provides concise definitions of health economics terms, arranged alphabetically for quick reference. Use it to understand unfamiliar terminology or confirm the meaning of a specific term.
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- Risk Sharing
- An arrangement distributing financial risk between two or more parties, such as an insurer and reinsurer, rather than one bearing it alone.
- Risk Sharing Agreement
- A formal arrangement distributing the financial or clinical uncertainty of a new treatment's real-world performance between manufacturer and payer.
- Risk Sharing Design
- The specific structure of a risk-sharing arrangement, including the threshold at which sharing begins and the proportion of costs each party bears above it.
- Risk Sharing Scheme
- An arrangement distributing the financial or clinical uncertainty of a new treatment's real-world performance between manufacturer and payer, often linked to outcomes.
- Risk-Sharing Rebate
- A rebate mechanism in which the amount a manufacturer repays a payer depends on how a treatment actually performs in real-world use.