A financial arrangement or organization that provides for the delivery or payment of health care services. Examples include: indemnity health insurance plans, and/or health
maintenance organizations (HMO's), employer self-insurance plans, preferred provider organizations (PPO's), and government-sponsored plans (i.e., Medicare,
Medicaid).*
Also: health plan
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*Extracted from Family Physicians
and Managed Care: A View to the 90's: (paperback 1993) with permission from American Academy of Family Physicians
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