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Descriptor English:
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Health Maintenance Organizations
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Descriptor Spanish:
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Sistemas Prepagos de Salud
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Descriptor Portuguese:
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Sistemas Pré-Pagos de Saúde
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Synonyms English:
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Group Health Organizations, Prepaid
HMO
Health Maintenance Organization
Organization, Health Maintenance
Organizations, Health Maintenance
Prepaid Group Health Organizations
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Tree Number:
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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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Definition English:
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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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History Note English:
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74(71)
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Allowable Qualifiers English:
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Record Number:
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28065
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Unique Identifier:
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D006279
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Similar:
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DeCS
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