health maintenance organizations

Preferred Label : health maintenance organizations;

MeSH definition : 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);

MeSH synonym : hmo; organization, health maintenance; prepaid group health organizations; organizations, health maintenance; health maintenance organization; group health organizations, prepaid;

MeSH annotation : DF: note short X ref;

Details

Origin ID

D006279;

UMLS CUI

C0018720;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- organization & administration [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Currated CISMeF NLP mapping
- Health Maintenance Organization [NCIt concept]
- Health maintenance organization (environment) [SNOMED CT concept]
- health maintenance organization [SNOMED Notion]
MedlinePlus topic(s)
- managed care [MedlinePlus Topic]
Record concept(s)
- health maintenance organizations [MeSH concept]
See also
- Private Health Care Coverage [DeCS]
- Supplemental Health [DeCS]
Semantic type(s)
- Health Care Related Organization [UMLS semantic type]
- Manufactured Object [UMLS semantic type]
UMLS correspondences (same concept)
- Health Maintenance Organization [NCIt concept]
- Health maintenance organization (environment) [SNOMED CT concept]
- health maintenance organization [SNOMED Notion]

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