Costing of Health Insurance Premium Collection in Cambodia's Informal Sector: A Case Study of Community-Based Health Insurance

To inform decision making about premium collection for the expansion of social health protection in Cambodia, HP+ undertook a case study of a community-based health insurance scheme to assess collection costs vis-à-vis the amount of cash collected. The study adopted the Cambodian government perspective (i.e., all costs that can be allocated to the government, either directly or indirectly). HP+ also examined the total cost of the scheme, including user fee payments, to estimate the gap in premium payments that would have been required to fully cover the scheme's costs.