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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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 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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COVID-19 community care in Israel-a nationwide cohort study from a large health maintenance organization. J Public Health (Oxf). 2021 Dec 10; 43(4):723-730.
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Characteristics of Hospitalized Adults With COVID-19 in an Integrated Health Care System in California. JAMA. 2020 Jun 02; 323(21):2195-2198.
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Responding to COVID-19: The UW Medicine Information Technology Services Experience. Appl Clin Inform. 2020 03; 11(2):265-275.
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Out in the Cold: Health Plan Blamed For Major Prompt-Pay Mess. Tex Med. 2019 Mar 01; 115(3):20-25.
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Computer-Assisted Flagging of Individuals at High Risk of Colorectal Cancer in a Large Health Maintenance Organization Using the ColonFlag Test. JCO Clin Cancer Inform. 2018 12; 2:1-8.
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Gatekeeping and patterns of outpatient care post healthcare reform. Am J Manag Care. 2018 10 01; 24(10):e312-e318.
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Adherence and Persistence with Drug Therapy among Fibromyalgia Patients: Data from a Large Health Maintenance Organization. J Rheumatol. 2017 Oct; 44(10):1499-1506.
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Response to symptoms among a U.S. national probability sample of adults infected with human immunodeficiency virus. Med Care Res Rev. 2002 Mar; 59(1):36-58.