Health Maintenance Organizations
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

African Americans in commercial HMOs more likely to delay prescription drugs and use the emergency room.

29 Sep 2009 Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs) are designed to provide comprehensive health care, including primary care to their enrollees. However, HMOs deliver care through a wide variety of physician networks, settings and methods throughout the nation ... Read more...

The tools of an evidence-based culture: implementing clinical-practice guidelines in an Israeli HMO.

30 Aug 2009 PURPOSE: Although clinical-practice guidelines (CPGs) are implemented on the assumption that they will improve the quality, efficiency, and consistency of health care, they generally have limited effect in changing physicians' behavior. The purpose ... Read more...

Recruitment to a randomized web-based nutritional intervention trial: characteristics of participants compared to non-participants.

24 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: Web-based behavioral programs efficiently disseminate health information to a broad population, and online tailoring may increase their effectiveness. While the number of Internet-based behavioral interventions has grown in the last ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Health Maintenance Organizations'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Group Health Cooperative--one coverage-and-delivery model for accountable care. 20 Oct 2009
• African Americans in commercial HMOs more likely to delay prescription drugs and use the emergency room. 29 Sep 2009
• Poor substitutes--why cooperatives and triggers can't achieve the goals of a public option. 21 Sep 2009
• Europe's knowledge broker. 21 Sep 2009
• Best health plans: 37,481 readers show you how to make the right choice. 30 Aug 2009
• The tools of an evidence-based culture: implementing clinical-practice guidelines in an Israeli HMO. 30 Aug 2009
• Recruitment to a randomized web-based nutritional intervention trial: characteristics of participants compared to non-participants. 24 Aug 2009
• Making electronic health records meaningful. 16 Aug 2009
• Quality of surveillance for stage I testis cancer in the community. Aug 2009
• An HMO-based prospective pilot study of energy medicine for chronic headaches: whole-person outcomes point to the need for new instrumentation. 30 Jul 2009
• Rising rates bring focus on self-insured plans. 30 Jul 2009
• Pharmacy practice research careers. 30 Jul 2009
• Effect of a multimodal reminder program on repeat mammogram screening. 30 Jul 2009
• The association between hospital ownership and technical efficiency in a managed care environment. 30 Jul 2009
• The process of updating the National List of Health Services in Israel: is it legitimate? Is it fair? 29 Jun 2009
• Tailoring a fruit and vegetable intervention on ethnic identity: results of a randomized study. 29 Jun 2009
• Community-based participatory research: partnering with communities for effective and sustainable behavioral health interventions. 29 Jun 2009
• Challenges in researching racially sensitive topics in HMOs. 29 Jun 2009
• The use of internet-based technology to tailor well-child care encounters. 29 Jun 2009
• A health insurance exchange: prototypes and design issues. 3 Jun 2009

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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