Biomaterial Database

The minefield after Marshfield: how to avoid antitrust violations. 1995

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UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D006279	Health Maintenance Organizations	Organized systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: (1) provide care in a defined geographic area; (2) provide or ensure delivery of an agreed-upon set of basic and supplemental health maintenance and treatment services; (3) provide care to a voluntarily enrolled group of persons; (4) require their enrollees to use the services of designated providers; and (5) receive reimbursement through a predetermined, fixed, periodic prepayment made by the enrollee without regard to the degree of services provided. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988)	Group Health Organizations, Prepaid,HMO,Prepaid Group Health Organizations,Health Maintenance Organization,Organizations, Health Maintenance,Organization, Health Maintenance
D006759	Hospital-Physician Joint Ventures	A formal financial agreement made between one or more physicians and a hospital to provide ambulatory alternative services to those patients who do not require hospitalization.	Joint Ventures, Hospital-Physician,Physician-Hospital Organizations,Hospital-Physician Joint Venture,Hospital-Physician Organizations,Joint Venture, Hospital-Physician,Joint Ventures,Organizations, Hospital-Physician,Organizations, Physician-Hospital,Hospital Physician Joint Venture,Hospital Physician Joint Ventures,Hospital Physician Organizations,Hospital-Physician Organization,Joint Venture,Joint Venture, Hospital Physician,Joint Ventures, Hospital Physician,Organization, Hospital-Physician,Organization, Physician-Hospital,Organizations, Hospital Physician,Organizations, Physician Hospital,Physician Hospital Organizations,Physician-Hospital Organization,Venture, Hospital-Physician Joint,Venture, Joint,Ventures, Hospital-Physician Joint,Ventures, Joint
D014481	United States	A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.
D014485	United States Federal Trade Commission	An independent administrative agency concerned with maintaining competitive free enterprise by prohibiting unfair methods of competition and unfair deceptive acts or practices.	Federal Trade Commission (U.S.),USFTC,Federal Trade Commission
D014922	Wisconsin	State bounded on the north by Lake Superior and Michigan, on the east by Lake Michigan, on the south by Illinois and Iowa, and on the west by Minnesota and Iowa.
D016363	Antitrust Laws	Those federal and state laws, and their enforcement, that protect trade and commerce from unlawful restraints and monopolies or unfair business practices.	Antitrust Liability,Sherman Antitrust Act,Act, Sherman Antitrust,Antitrust Act, Sherman,Antitrust Law,Antitrust Liabilities,Law, Antitrust,Laws, Antitrust,Liabilities, Antitrust,Liability, Antitrust
D054598	Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance Plans	Prepaid health and hospital insurance plan.	Blue Cross,Blue Shield,Blue Crosses,Blue Shields,Cross, Blue,Crosses, Blue,Shield, Blue,Shields, Blue
D018511	Systems Integration	The procedures involved in combining separately developed modules, components, or subsystems so that they work together as a complete system. (From McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific and Technical Terms, 4th ed)	Integration, Systems,Integrations, Systems,Systems Integrations