Health Maintenance Organizations--reauthorization: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, on H.R. 2480 ... H.R. 2508 ... H.R. 2550 ... March 18 and 19, 1981

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Page 135 - To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide assistance and encouragement for the establishment and expansion of health maintenance organizations, and for other purposes.
Page 322 - In expounding a statute we must not be guided by a single sentence or member of a sentence, but look to the provisions of the whole law and to its object and policy.
Page 259 - STATEMENT of the AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION to the Subcommittee on Health and the Environment Committee on Energy and Commerce US House of Representatives Presented by John J.
Page 325 - Diagnostic laboratory and diagnostic and therapeutic radiologic services in support of basic health services; (7) Home health services provided at a member's home by health care personnel, as prescribed or directed by the responsible physician or other authority designated by the HMO; and (8) Preventive health services, which...
Page 126 - I appear today on behalf of the Health Insurance Association of America. The Health Insurance Association of America has over 300 member companies who write in excess of 80 per cent of all health insurance underwritten by insurance companies in the United States.
Page 181 - COMMITTEE ON INTERSTATE AND FOREIGN COMMERCE, Washington, DC The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10 am, in room 2218, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon.
Page 290 - TESTIMONY of the NATIONAL RETIRED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION and the AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF RETIRED PERSONS on...
Page 325 - ... treatment and referral services (including referral services to appropriate ancillary services) for the abuse of or addiction to alcohol and drugs: (i) Diagnosis and medical treatment...
Page 325 - ... inpatient hospital services, which shall include but not be limited to, room and board, general nursing care, meals and special diets when medically necessary, use of operating room and related facilities, intensive care unit and services.
Page 287 - health maintenance organization" means a public or private organization, organized under the laws of any State, which — (A) is a qualified health maintenance organization under section 1310(d); or (BXi) provides or otherwise makes available to enrolled participants health care services, including at least the following basic health care services: usual physician services, hospitalization, laboratory, X-ray, emergency and preventive services, and...

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