HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION (HMO) • An organization that provides health coverage with providers under contract • Differs from traditional health insurance by the contracts it has with its providers. These contracts allow for premiums to be lower: • Because the health providers has the advantage of having patients directed to them • But these contracts also add additional restrictions to the HMO members. • HMOs provide health care to their members through networks
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Running head: INFLUENCE OF HMO ’S HMO’s University of Phoenix Abstract The term Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) was developed in 1970 as part of the Nixon Administration to promote the growth of prepaid plans as a way to improve the nation’s health system. The Health Maintenance Organization has an appearance on the outside of being very appealing to those with little money to spend on insurance because it has a very low premium cost‚ but the truth be known that sometimes cheaper is
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Role of the Professional Nurse in Health Promotion and Protection in Communities University of Missouri‚ St. Louis Introduction: Health Promotion and Health Protection Defined There are many different definitions of health promotion and protection and all of them sound fairly similar. Pender (2006) describes health promotion as a behavior motivated by the desire to increase well being and actualize human health potential and describes health protection as behavior motivated by the desire
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Identifying a Personal Lineage: Restoration & Adaptive Reuse After doing extensive research and some soul searching‚ I feel most connected to the French architect and theorist‚ Eugene Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (January 27‚ 1814 – September 17‚ 1879). Viollet-le-Duc is best known for his extensive restoration projects throughout the 19th century. His portfolio contains a long list of projects that were done in the Gothic Revival style‚ however he designed and restored buildings in a variety
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Question: Why and How Machines fail? Module: Maintenance Strategy Name: Vashish Boolauky Id no: 102019 WHY AND HOW MACHINES FAIL? Failure of a machine tool may occur due to failure(s) in any of the elements of the subsystems. The failure may be attributed to specific failure causes. A failure cause is defined as a reason that makes the machine unable to perform its intended function. This may be attributed to failure events contributed by its subsystems‚ assemblies‚ or components.
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Restoration Comedy Restoration Comedy refers to English Comedies written during the Restoration period from 1660-1710. The re-opening of the theatres in 1660 after public stage performances had been banned for 18 years by the Puritan regime signalled a renaissance of English drama. Restoration comedy is notorious for its sexual licentiousness‚ a quality encouraged by Charles II personally and by the rakish aristocratic ethos of his court. English Drama witnessed great changes during Charles
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A young Japanese teenager‚ by the name of Mutsuhito (Huffman)‚ was given this document to sign in April 1868 (Morton and Olenik 147). This boy is better known as the Emperor Meiji‚ or “Enlightened rule (Morton and Olenik 147).” The name “Meiji Restoration” came from this name‚ and it officially began on January 3‚ 1868 (Huffman). He and his followers claimed power on this date in a “relatively tranquil coup (Huffman)” that overthrew the previous administration‚ the Tokugawa regime (Huffman). The
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preparedness‚ relief and recovery. According to statistics of vulnerable populations‚ American Indians are part of the vulnerable populations of the United States. This vulnerable population has had to face irreversible damages all their lives. Based on treaties‚ laws‚ presidential executive orders and numerous court decisions‚ the United States established federally governmental relationships with the American Indian and Alaskan Tribes through the Cherokee Nation V. Georgia case of 1831‚ It specifically
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Practice context: Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) is a company that provides health care services for a fee often monthly‚ bi-annually‚ or annually. It is also known as medical insurance‚ and acts as an intermediary between individuals‚ organizations‚ and health care professionals (including doctors‚ nurses‚ and hospitals). Health Maintenance Organizations is managed by medical doctors and nurses who work as case managers (HealthCare.gov‚ 2017). Case Management is a collective process that
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Indian Health Service (IHS) The Indian Health Service is an operational division agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHA)‚ which is responsible for providing medical and health care services for federally recognized Indian and Alaskan Native American tribes within the United States ranging from community health to primary health care services. The Indian Health Service provides health care and medically needed services to American Indians in health care organizations and
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