Growing 'Out of Pocket' Healthcare Market

While insurance is the most common form of payment for healthcare services, increasingly customers are paying for their own expenses. Pharmaceutical, device and diagnostic companies, should recognize that a part of their revenues are originating directly or indirectly from out of pocket expenditures.

Health care costs are high and accelerating as a result of a confluence of factors within the broader economy, as well as the health care marketplace. Unique financial services have been created to facilitate non-insurance-paid health care services, and more are expected to be created in the near term.

Kalorama Information's unique report The Growing Out of Pocket Healthcare Market examines these phenomena