Health Care

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)

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Abstract

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)

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Synonyms

6 entry terms
  • Group Health Organizations, Prepaid
  • HMO
  • Health Maintenance Organization
  • Organizations, Health Maintenance
  • Prepaid Group Health Organizations
  • Organization, Health Maintenance

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9 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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History Note

74(71)

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Previous Indexing

  • Group Practice (1966-1970)
  • Insurance, Health (1966-1970)

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  1. N03w.219w.521.576w.343w.800w.400w
  2. N03w.219w.521.576w.343w.925.400w
  3. N04w.452.758.244.425w
  4. N04w.590.374w.410w.400w

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NLM Classification

W 132

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Health Maintenance Organizations. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006279. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006279
  2. Health Maintenance Organizations. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_maintenance_organization
  3. Health Maintenance Organizations. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q20035455