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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| 2000 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2001 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2002 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2008 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2010 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2013 | 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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Novotny R, Oshiro CE, Wilkens LR. Prevalence of Childhood Obesity among Young Multiethnic Children from a Health Maintenance Organization in Hawaii. Child Obes. 2013 Feb; 9(1):35-42.
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Pisu M, Wang D, Martin MY, Baltrus P, Levine RS. Presence of medical schools may contribute to reducing breast cancer mortality and disparities. J Health Care Poor Underserved. 2010 Aug; 21(3):961-76.
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Johnson ML, Petersen LA, Sundaravaradan R, Byrne MM, Hasche JC, Osemene NI, Wei II, Morgan RO. The association of Medicare drug coverage with use of evidence-based medications in the Veterans Health Administration. Ann Pharmacother. 2009 Oct; 43(10):1565-75.
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Morgan RO, Petersen LA, Hasche JC, Davila JA, Byrne MM, Osemene NI, Wei II, Johnson ML. VHA pharmacy use in veterans with Medicare drug coverage. Am J Manag Care. 2009 Mar 16; 15(3):e1-8.
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Roetzheim RG, Chirikos TN, Wells KJ, McCarthy EP, Ngo LH, Li D, Drews RE, Iezzoni LI. Managed care and cancer outcomes for Medicare beneficiaries with disabilities. Am J Manag Care. 2008 May; 14(5):287-96.
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Kominski GF, Heslin KC, Morgenstern H, Hurwitz EL, Harber PI. Economic evaluation of four treatments for low-back pain: results from a randomized controlled trial. Med Care. 2005 May; 43(5):428-35.
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Younis MZ, Rivers PA, Fottler MD. The impact of HMO and hospital competition on hospital costs. J Health Care Finance. 2005; 31(4):60-74.
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Caplan LS, Mandelson MT, Anderson LA. Validity of self-reported mammography: examining recall and covariates among older women in a Health Maintenance Organization. Am J Epidemiol. 2003 Feb 01; 157(3):267-72.
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Hurwitz EL, Morgenstern H, Harber P, Kominski GF, Yu F, Adams AH. A randomized trial of chiropractic manipulation and mobilization for patients with neck pain: clinical outcomes from the UCLA neck-pain study. Am J Public Health. 2002 Oct; 92(10):1634-41.
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Kilbourne AM, Andersen RM, Asch S, Nakazono T, Crystal S, Stein M, Gifford AL, Bing EG, Bozzette SA, Shapiro MF, Cunningham WE. Response to symptoms among a U.S. national probability sample of adults infected with human immunodeficiency virus. Med Care Res Rev. 2002 Mar; 59(1):36-58.