Health Maintenance Organizations
"Health Maintenance Organizations" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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)
| Descriptor ID |
D006279
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| MeSH 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
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| Concept/Terms |
Health Maintenance Organizations- Health Maintenance Organizations
- Prepaid Group Health Organizations
- HMO
- Organizations, Health Maintenance
- Group Health Organizations, Prepaid
- Health Maintenance Organization
- Organization, Health Maintenance
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Maintenance Organizations" by people in Profiles.
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Cafri G, Paxton EW, Love R, Bini SA, Kurtz SM. Is There a Difference in Revision Risk Between Metal and Ceramic Heads on Highly Crosslinked Polyethylene Liners? Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2017 May; 475(5):1349-1355.
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Stefanacci RG, Guerin S. Calling something an ACO does not really make it so. Manag Care. 2013 Mar; 22(3):15-7.
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Stefanacci RG. Medicare Part D: where we are and where we're going. Manag Care. 2006 Jul; 15(7 Suppl 3):2-5.
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Hudson LR, Hamar GB, Orr P, Johnson JH, Neftzger A, Chung RS, Williams ML, Gandy WM, Crawford A, Clarke J, Goldfarb NI. Remote physiological monitoring: clinical, financial, and behavioral outcomes in a heart failure population. Dis Manag. 2005 Dec; 8(6):372-81.
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Stefanacci RG. Strategies for developing a successful Medicare part D formulary. Manag Care. 2005 May; 14(5 Suppl):3-10.
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Hu XH, Bull SA, Hunkeler EM, Ming E, Lee JY, Fireman B, Markson LE. Incidence and duration of side effects and those rated as bothersome with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor treatment for depression: patient report versus physician estimate. J Clin Psychiatry. 2004 Jul; 65(7):959-65.
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Baig N, Myers RE, Turner BJ, Grana J, Rothermel T, Schlackman N, Weinberg DS. Physician-reported reasons for limited follow-up of patients with a positive fecal occult blood test screening result. Am J Gastroenterol. 2003 Sep; 98(9):2078-81.
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Bora FW, Beredjiklian PK. 25th Anniversary Presentation. Time to think. J Hand Surg Am. 2000 Mar; 25(2):211-3.