Are high medical costs incurred by people with disabilities excessive?: An empirical analysis of Korean National Health Insurance Data

• Min Jung Hong ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Min Jung Hong, Changwoo Lee

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Gimpo Woori Hospital, Gimpo, Gyeongi-do, Republic of Korea

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• Changwoo Lee ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Min Jung Hong, Changwoo Lee

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Health Policy and Management, Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Clara Lee,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Asan Medical Center, Ulsan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Ye-Soon Kim,

  Roles Conceptualization, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Healthcare and Public Health Research, National Rehabilitation Center, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1424-0163

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• Jae Yeon Jeong,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software

  Affiliation Department of Health Administration, Yonsei University Graduate School, Wonju, Gangwon-do, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6283-4671

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• Seeun Park,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America

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• Dong Wook Shin,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea

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• Euichul Shin

  Roles Conceptualization, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: eshin@catholic.ac.kr

  Affiliation Department of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7953-021X

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