Health Maintenance Organizations
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)
Year introduced: 1974(1971)
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Tree Number(s): N03.219.521.576.343.800.400, N03.219.521.576.343.925.400, N04.452.758.244.425, N04.590.374.410.400
MeSH Unique ID: D006279
Entry Terms:
- Group Health Organizations, Prepaid
- Health Maintenance Organization
- Organization, Health Maintenance
- HMO
- Organizations, Health Maintenance
- Prepaid Group Health Organizations
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