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Health Maintenance Organizations

Known as: Organizations, Health Maintenance, Health Maintenance Organization, hmos 
Organized systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: (1) provide care in a defined geographic area; (2… 
National Institutes of Health

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Cost ControlDelivery of Health CareFee for Service payment planHealth Care Costs

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Health InsuranceManaged CareOrganization administrative structures

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Local - Managed care HMO

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1997
1997
Alcohol and injury: a comparison of three emergency room samples in two regions.
OBJECTIVE Alcohol's involvement in injury has been found to vary greatly depending on the type and location of emergency room (ER… 
1996
1996
The soul of an HMO.
1992
1992
The Use of Targeting Criteria in Hospitalized HMO Patients: Results from the Demonstration Phase of the Hospitalized Older Persons Evaluation (HOPE) Study
To determine the yield of standardized targeting criteria for identifying hospitalized HMO patients who are at high risk for… 
Review
1986
Review
1986
Including Health Status in Medicare's Adjusted Average per Capita Cost Capitation Formula
Actuarial factors currently comprising Medicare's HMO capitation formula, the Adjusted Average Per Capita Cost (AAPCC), are… 
Review
1986
Review
1986
Costs and benefits of medical student training to a health maintenance organization.
  • H. KirzC. Larsen
  • Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA…
  • 1986
  • Corpus ID: 24869121
As health maintenance organizations (HMOs) and managed health care systems expand, they represent an increasing potential as… 
1985
1985
Regression Toward the Mean in Medical Care Costs: Implications for Biased Selection in Health Maintenance Organizations
As more Americans choose among insurance plans, the possibility of biased selection increases in importance. Although regression… 
Review
1983
Review
1983
Paramagnetism and antiaromaticity: singlet-triplet equilibrium in doubly charged benzenoid polycyclic systems
Fused benzenoid systems such as anthracene, phenanthrene, 3,4-benzophenanthrene, and chrysene were reduced with lithium, sodium… 
Highly Cited
1980
Highly Cited
1980
Assessing the evidence on HMO performance.
HMOs contract to provide physician and hospital services to enrolled populations in return for fixed periodic payments. Total… 
Review
1980
Review
1980
The performance of Health Maintenance Organizations: an analytic review.
An analytic review of the literature on HMO performance reveals common limitations that make available evidence inconclusive, at… 
Review
1973
Review
1973
HMO performance: the recent evidence.
to modify the U.S. health care delivery system toward more economical patterns, encouraging preventive and ambulatory rather than… 
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