mber of hospital admissions and the duration of individual admissions, and to eliminate inappropriate or unnecessary treatments while individuals are admitted to hospital.
The most notable manifestation of the preneed contracted services technique of funding health care services is the health maintenance organization (HMO). HMOs range in size from clinics to organizations which operate several hospitals. When HMOs do not operate their own hospitals, they arrange for and pay for required hospital services for their members. In its most simple manifestation, pre need contracted health care services are agreements between health care services recipients and health care services providers, whereby agreed upon health care services will be delivered by the provider as required by the health care user in return for a prepaid monthly fee which will be paid by the user whether or not health care services are required.
In the mid 1980s, additional formal responses to the health care deliv
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