title: Health maintenance organizations: improvements in the regulatory environment.
abstract: Health maintenance organizations (HMOs) can help slow rising health care costs. State regulatory statutes are needed that will protect critical interests of HMO members while freeing HMOs from needless statutory requirements. A model HMO regulatory law is designed to strike a balance between protection of members and freedom for HMOs to deliver programs that can reduce health care costs.
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D005161:Facility Regulation and Control / Q000639:trends*; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations / Q000266:history / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D008004:Licensure; D008318:Malpractice; D011907:Rate Setting and Review; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States