 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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| 1995 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 1996 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 1997 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 1998 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 1999 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2000 | 3 | 4 | 7 | | 2001 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2002 | 4 | 2 | 6 | | 2003 | 0 | 3 | 3 | | 2004 | 1 | 3 | 4 | | 2005 | 4 | 5 | 9 | | 2006 | 0 | 8 | 8 | | 2007 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2008 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2009 | 2 | 3 | 5 | | 2010 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2011 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2012 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2014 | 0 | 4 | 4 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 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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Beckman AL, Frakt AB, Duggan C, Zheng J, Orav EJ, Tsai TC, Figueroa JF. Evaluation of Potentially Avoidable Acute Care Utilization Among Patients Insured by Medicare Advantage vs Traditional Medicare. JAMA Health Forum. 2023 02 03; 4(2):e225530.
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Stenmark SH, Steiner JF, Marpadga S, Debor M, Underhill K, Seligman H. Lessons Learned from Implementation of the Food Insecurity Screening and Referral Program at Kaiser Permanente Colorado. Perm J. 2018; 22:18-093.
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Gilchrist-Scott DH, Feinstein JA, Agrawal R. Medicaid Managed Care Structures and Care Coordination. Pediatrics. 2017 Sep; 140(3).
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Merenstein DJ, D'Amico FJ, Vinker S, Petterson S, Lahad A. Evidence-based HMO care for prostate specific antigen testing. Int J Health Plann Manage. 2018 Jan; 33(1):265-271.
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Todd BA, Lamprecht DG, Stadler SL. Pharmacist prescribing practices in a clinical pharmacy cardiac risk service. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2016 Sep 15; 73(18):1442-50.
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Lewandowski RE, O'Connor B, Bertagnolli A, Beck A, Tinoco A, Gardner WP, Jelinek-Berents CX, Newton DA, Wain KF, Boggs JM, Brace NE, deSa P, Scholle SH, Hoagwood K, Horwitz SM. Screening for and Diagnosis of Depression Among Adolescents in a Large Health Maintenance Organization. Psychiatr Serv. 2016 06 01; 67(6):636-41.
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Narang AK, Wright AA, Nicholas LH. Trends in Advance Care Planning in Patients With Cancer: Results From a National Longitudinal Survey. JAMA Oncol. 2015 Aug; 1(5):601-8.
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Chang SS, Wang K, Kono S, Saman DM, Snyder S, Melvin TA, Calzada G. Pilot study of a novel population of head and neck cancer patients in the CRN. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2015 Jan; 152(1):87-90.
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Thompson EE, Steiner JF. Embedded research to improve health: the 20th annual HMO Research Network conference, March 31-April 3, 2014, Phoenix, Arizona. Clin Med Res. 2014 Sep; 12(1-2):73-6.
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Asgari MM, Eide MJ, Warton M, Fletcher SW. Comparing characteristics of melanoma cases arising in health maintenance organizations with state and national registries. Melanoma Res. 2014 Aug; 24(4):381-7.
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