This paper examines upfront payment requirements (pay-before-treatment policies) as a non-clinical barrier to timely emergency care in fragile and resource-constrained health systems.
Upfront payment requirements delay or prevent access to emergency care in fragile health systems, functioning as a systemic non-clinical barrier to timely treatment.
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Clinicians and health system administrators in low-resource settings should recognize upfront payment policies as a structural barrier that delays emergency care and advocate for policy reforms to decouple payment from treatment triage.
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