Group Health Cooperative

Pharmacoepidemiology, Fourth Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 223-239

  Saunders, Kathleen W ^a   Davis, Robert L ^a,b   Stergachis, Andy ^c  

^a CENTER FOR HEALTH STUDIES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

GHC and comprehensive outpatient health care coverage; GHC databases; GHC's Community Health Services department; Group Health Cooperative (GHC); Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulations; Health maintenance organizations (HMOs); Network model HMOs and individual practice associations (IPAs); Utilization Management Cost Management Information System (UM CMIS)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889387923     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470059876.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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