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Descriptor
English
:
Competitive Medical Plans
Descriptor
Spanish
:
Planes Médicos Competitivos
Descriptor
Portuguese
:
Planos Médicos Alternativos
Tree Number:
N03.219.521.576.343.800.175
N04.590.374.410.175
Definition
English
:
Alternative
health
care delivery mechanisms, such as
PREFERRED PROVIDER ORGANIZATIONS
or other
health
insurance
services or prepaid plans (other than
HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS
), that meet
Medicare
qualifications for a risk-sharing contract. (From Facts on File
Dictionary
of
Health
Care
Management
, 1988)
Indexing Annotation
English
:
DF: COMPETITIVE MED PLANS
See Related
English
:
Preferred Provider Organizations
History Note
English
:
92
Allowable Qualifiers
English
:
CL
classification
EC
economics
ES
ethics
HI
history
LJ
legislation & jurisprudence
OG
organization & administration
ST
standards
SN
statistics & numerical data
TD
trends
UT
utilization
Record Number:
30181
Unique Identifier:
D016536
Occurrence in VHL
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