Concept information
Preferred term
Health Maintenance Organizations
Type
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mesh:Descriptor
Definition
- 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)
Broader concept
Entry terms
- Group Health Organizations, Prepaid
- Health Maintenance Organization
- HMO
- Organizations, Health Maintenance
- Prepaid Group Health Organizations
Allowable Qualifier(s)
In other languages
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French
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HMO (Health Maintenance Organization)
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Organisations américaines de soins de santé intégrés
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Organisations de soins de santé intégrés aux États-Unis
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Organisations de soins de santé intégrés aux USA
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Organisations de soins intégrés de santé
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Organismes de soins intégrés de santé
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Réseau de soins coordonnés aux États-Unis
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Réseaux de soins coordonnés aux États-Unis
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Réseaux de soins coordonnés aux USA
URI
http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/JVR-PZ35NZ3K-Z
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