Definition: Payment by individuals or their family for health care services which are not covered by a third-party payer, either insurance or medical assistance.
restricted to a person's payment of health care expenditures: read MeSH definition; not for the personal finances of physicans & other health care professionals: index under PHYSICIANS; DENTISTS; NURSES; PHARMACISTS; etc., for personal non-professional e
ExamplesMedical Savings Accounts
Other names Personal Expenditures; Personal Financing; Personal Expenditure; Expenditures, Personal; Expenditure, Personal