Health Maintenance Organizations - Economics
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Monday, November 23, 2009

High-deductible health plans: are vulnerable families enrolled?

30 Mar 2009 OBJECTIVE: There is concern that high-deductible health plans may have negative effects on vulnerable groups. The objective of this study was to compare the characteristics of families who have children and switch to high-deductible health plans ... Read more...

Relationships among depression, chronic pain, chronic disabling pain, and medical costs.

27 Feb 2009 OBJECTIVE: Although evidence suggests that patients with depression use more medical services than those without depression, few studies have examined whether specific subgroups of patients with depression have higher utilization than others. The ... Read more...

Long-term results of a smoking reduction program.

30 Dec 2008 INTRODUCTION: There have been few comprehensive evaluations of smoking reduction, especially in health care delivery systems, and little is known about its cost, maintenance of reduced smoking, or robustness across patient subgroups. METHODS: A ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Health Maintenance Organizations - Economics'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Rising rates bring focus on self-insured plans. 30 Jul 2009
• Medicare and HMOs--the search for accountability. 12 May 2009
• Legislation: where does health care fit in? 30 Mar 2009
• High-deductible health plans: are vulnerable families enrolled? 30 Mar 2009
• Understanding New York's Medicaid program. 27 Feb 2009
• Relationships among depression, chronic pain, chronic disabling pain, and medical costs. 27 Feb 2009
• Long-term results of a smoking reduction program. 30 Dec 2008
• Complications of dysglycemia and medical costs associated with nondiabetic hyperglycemia. 29 Nov 2008
• Hepatocellular cancer care: cost is important but only one factor of disease burden. 4 Nov 2008
• The black box. 30 Oct 2008
• Medicare spending on HMOs and stand-alone drug plans: what is it worth to beneficiaries? 30 Oct 2008
• Effects of reaching the drug benefit threshold on Medicare members' healthcare utilization during the first year of Medicare Part D. 29 Sep 2008
• Nothing for something? Estimating cost and value for beneficiaries from recent medicare spending increases on HMO payments and drug benefits. 25 Sep 2008
• Change of plans. Squeezed by soaring medical costs and other demands for their revenue, providers are continuing to sell off their health plans. 6 Sep 2008
• The burden of rhinitis in a managed care organization. 30 Aug 2008
• The effect of comorbid anxiety and depressive disorders on health care utilization and costs among adolescents with asthma. Aug 2008
• Medicare HMO impact on utilization at the end of life. 30 Jul 2008
• Examine these benchmarks for provider-owned plans. 30 May 2008
• Cancer screening before and after switching to a high-deductible health plan. 4 May 2008
• Incorporating health care quality into health antitrust law. 20 Apr 2008

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Technical information about 'Health Maintenance Organizations'

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)

Descriptor UI: D006279

Alternative terms: Health Maintenance Organizations; Prepaid Group Health Organizations; HMO; Organizations, Health Maintenance; Group Health Organizations, Prepaid; Health Maintenance Organization; Organization, Health Maintenance;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: N03.219.521.576.343.800.400; N03.219.521.576.343.925.400; N04.452.758.244.425; N04.590.374.410.400;

History Note: 74(71)

Technical Notes: DF: note short X ref