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Health Maintenance Organizations  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Entry terms

  • Group Health Organizations, Prepaid
  • Health Maintenance Organization
  • HMO
  • Organization, Health Maintenance
  • Organizations, Health Maintenance
  • Prepaid Group Health Organizations

Scope note

  • Organized systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: (1) provide care in a defined geographic area; (2) provide or ensure delivery of an agreed-upon set of basic and supplemental health maintenance and treatment services; (3) provide care to a voluntarily enrolled group of persons; (4) require their enrollees to use the services of designated providers; and (5) receive reimbursement through a predetermined, fixed, periodic prepayment made by the enrollee without regard to the degree of services provided. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988)

History note

  • 74(71)

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006279

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