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Preferred term

Health Maintenance Organizations  

Type

  • 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)

Entry terms

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

In other languages

  • French

  • HMO (Health Maintenance Organization)
  • Organisations américaines de soins de santé intégrés
  • Organisations de soins de santé intégrés aux États-Unis
  • Organisations de soins de santé intégrés aux USA
  • Organisations de soins intégrés de santé
  • Organismes de soins intégrés de santé
  • Réseau de soins coordonnés aux États-Unis
  • Réseaux de soins coordonnés aux États-Unis
  • Réseaux de soins coordonnés aux USA

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