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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| 2000 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 2005 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2007 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Maintenance Organizations" by people in Profiles.
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Description of a team-based job improvement process within a large geographically dispersed primary care clinical pharmacy service. J Am Pharm Assoc (2003). 2011 Jan-Feb; 51(1):95-9.
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Evaluation of a career ladder program in an ambulatory care environment. Nurs Econ. 2008 Nov-Dec; 26(6):353-60.
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Economic grand rounds: A pay-for-performance program for behavioral health care practitioners. Psychiatr Serv. 2007 Apr; 58(4):442-4.
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Kidney scandal at Kaiser Permanente highlights need for organizations to create effective image repair strategies. Health Care Strateg Manage. 2006 Nov; 24(11):14-6.
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Reliability of Group Health Cooperative automated pharmacy data by drug benefit status. Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf. 2005 Dec; 14(12):877-84.
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Cost-effectiveness of sibutramine in the LOSE Weight Study: evaluating the role of pharmacologic weight-loss therapy within a weight management program. J Manag Care Pharm. 2005 Jul-Aug; 11(6):458-68.
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The Long-term Outcomes of Sibutramine Effectiveness on Weight (LOSE Weight) study: evaluating the role of drug therapy within a weight management program in a group-model health maintenance organization. Am J Manag Care. 2004 Jun; 10(6):369-76.
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Impact of healthcare delivery system on where HMO-enrolled seniors purchase medications. Ann Pharmacother. 2004 Jul-Aug; 38(7-8):1317-8.
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Seniors with chronic health conditions and prescription drugs: benefits, wealth, and health. Value Health. 2004 Mar-Apr; 7(2):133-43.
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Do HMOs affect educational disparities in health care? Ann Fam Med. 2003 Jul-Aug; 1(2):90-6.