In Ethiopia's Kutaber district, does community-based health insurance protect households from catastrophic health-care costs? A community- based comparative cross-sectional study.

The magnitude of CHE was lower among CBHI-enrolled households. CBHI is an effective means of financial protection benefits for households as a share of total household expenditure and non-food expenditure measures. Therefore, increasing the upper limits of benefit packages, minimizing exclusions, and CBHI scale-up to uninsured households is essential.