Managed Care Organization (MCO) means a contracted health delivery system providing capitated or prepaid health services, also known as a Prepaid Health Plan (PHP). An MCO is responsible for providing, arranging, and making reimbursement arrangements for covered services as governed by state and federal law. An MCO may be a Chemical Dependency Organization (CDO), Dental Care Organization (DCO), Mental Health Organization (MHO), or Physician Care Organization (PCO).
Health care organization ’ means any person or en-
Managed care organization means an entity that (1) is under contract with the department to provide services to Medicaid recipients and (2) meets the definition of “health maintenance organization” as defined in Iowa Code section 514B.1.
Provider Organization means a group practice, facility, or organization that is:
Review organization means a disability insurer regulated
Employee organization means any organization, union, or
Independent review organization means an entity that is accredited to conduct independent external reviews of adverse benefit determinations.
Accountable care organization or “ACO” means an organization of health care providers that has a formal legal structure, is identified by a federal Taxpayer Identification Number, and agrees to be accountable for the quality, cost, and overall care of the patients assigned to it.
Domestic organization means an organization created under the laws of this state.
Credit union service organization means an organization, corporation, or association whose membership or ownership is primarily confined or restricted to credit unions or organizations of credit unions and whose purpose is primarily designed to provide services to credit unions, organizations of credit unions, or credit union members.
Stewardship organization means an organization, association, or
Member organization means any individual, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, or association that belongs to an association.
Utilization review organization means an entity that conducts utilization review, other than a health carrier performing a review for its own health benefit plans.
Eligible organization means a veterans, charitable, educational, religious, fraternal,
Qualified long-term care services means services that meet the requirements of Section 7702(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, as follows: necessary diagnostic, preventive, therapeutic, curative, treatment, mitigation and rehabilitative services, and maintenance or personal care services which are required by a chronically ill individual, and are provided pursuant to a plan of care prescribed by a licensed health care practitioner.
Designated chemical dependency specialist means a person
Professional employer organization means an employee leasing
Managed care plan means a health benefit plan that either requires a covered person to use, or creates incentives, including financial incentives, for a covered person to use health care providers managed, owned, under contract with or employed by the health carrier.
ADR Organization means The American Arbitration Association or, if The American Arbitration Association no longer exists or if its ADR Rules would no longer permit mediation or arbitration, as applicable, of the dispute, another nationally recognized mediation or arbitration organization selected by the Sponsor.
Educational organization means a nonprofit public or private elementary or
Procurement organization means an eye bank, organ procurement organization, or tissue bank.
Business organization means an individual, partnership, association, joint stock company, trust, corporation or other legal business entity or successor thereof.
Health care plan means any contract, policy or other arrangement for benefits or services for medical or dental care or treatment under:
Supervised financial organization means a person, other than an insurance company or other organization primarily engaged in an insurance business:
Religious organization means a church, ecclesiastical corporation, or group, not organized for pecuniary profit, that gathers for mutual support and edification in piety or worship of a supreme deity.
Foreign organization means an organization created under laws other than the laws of this state for a purpose for which an organization may be created under the laws of this state.