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The Sound Health Association: A Federally Qualified Health Maintenance Organization

HRD-77-119 Published: Dec 02, 1977. Publicly Released: Dec 13, 1982.
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The Sound Health Association, Inc., of Tacoma, Washington, is a consumer-owned, prepaid health plan and was the first health maintenance organization qualified by the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) under the Health Maintenance Organization Act. The provision of health care services on the basis of prepaid rates provides incentives for the organization to emphasize preventive medicine to reduce overall health care costs.

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