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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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1997 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1999 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2001 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 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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Medicaid Managed Care Structures and Care Coordination. Pediatrics. 2017 Sep; 140(3).
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Medicare annual preventive care visits: use increased among fee-for-service patients, but many do not participate. Health Aff (Millwood). 2015 Jan; 34(1):11-20.
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Factors contributing to underuse of radiation among younger women with breast cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2014 Jan; 106(1):djt340.
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Health insurance and other factors associated with mammography surveillance among breast cancer survivors: results from a national survey. Med Care. 2012 Mar; 50(3):270-6.
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Asthma control is enhanced when health plans and providers cooperate. Pediatr Ann. 2009 Mar; 38(3):135-42.
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Focused atorvastatin therapy in managed-care patients with coronary heart disease and CKD. Am J Kidney Dis. 2009 May; 53(5):741-50.
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Acquisition of sexually transmitted infections in adolescents attending an urban, general HMO teen clinic. J Adolesc Health. 2006 Aug; 39(2):287-90.
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Sociological influences on antidepressant prescribing. Soc Sci Med. 2003 Mar; 56(6):1335-44.
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Impact of interpreter services on delivery of health care to limited-English-proficient patients. J Gen Intern Med. 2001 Jul; 16(7):468-74.
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Mammography utilization among california women age 40-49 in a managed care environment. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2001 May; 67(2):181-6.