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MeSH Heading: Health Maintenance Organizations
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
Unique ID: D006279
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006279
Scope Note: 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 Term(s): Group Health Organizations, Prepaid; HMO; Health Maintenance Organization; Organizations, Health Maintenance; Prepaid Group Health Organizations
NLM Classification #: W 132
Previous Indexing: Group Practice (1966-1970); Insurance, Health (1966-1970)
Public MeSH Note: 74
History Note: 74(71)
Date Established: 1974/01/01
Date of Entry: 1999/01/01
Revision Date: 1999/11/08

Allowable Qualifiers: classification (CL)

economics (EC)

ethics (ES)

history (HI)

legislation & jurisprudence (LJ)

organization & administration (OG)

standards (ST)

statistics & numerical data (SN)

trends (TD)

Concept UI: M0009853
Scope Note: 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)
Terms: Health Maintenance Organizations Preferred Term
Term UI T019017
Date01/01/1999
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID BIOETHICS (1989); Group Health Organizations, Prepaid
Term UI T019019
Date06/01/1979
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Health Maintenance Organization
Term UI T019015
Date06/01/1979
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); HMO
Term UI T019018
Date02/05/1991
LexicalTag ABB
ThesaurusID NLM (1992); Organizations, Health Maintenance
Term UI T019016
Date06/01/1979
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX); Prepaid Group Health Organizations
Term UI T019020
Date06/01/1979
LexicalTag NON
ThesaurusID UNK (19XX)

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