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Health Occupations > Health Services Administration > Organization and Administration > Professional Practice > Management Service Organizations

Preferred term

Management Service Organizations  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Management Service Organization
  • Organization, Management Service
  • Organizations, Management Service
  • Service Organization, Management
  • Service Organizations, Management

Scope note

  • Voluntarily-formed groups of healthcare professionals who join for common management services and other benefits such as collective bargaining agreements with reimbursement agents. The physical assets of a practice are controlled by the MSO which also provides billing, collections, and similar services. The practitioner retains control of patient records and management of patient care.

History note

  • 2001; use HOSPITAL-PHYSICIAN JOINT VENTURES 1996-2000

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D021661

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