Concept information
Preferred term
Health Maintenance Organizations
Type
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Topical Descriptor
Broader concept
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)
In other languages
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Finnish
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terveyden ylläpitoa tukevat järjestö
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Swedish
URI
http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006279
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