Summary of the Status of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's Grants and Loans Made Under the Health Maintenance Organization Act as of June 30, 1977

Summaries of the status of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's (HEW) grants and loans made under the Health Maintenance Organization Act as of June 30, 1977, were developed in order to help monitor the implementation of this act. The act authorized grant funds for feasibility studies and planning and initial development activities and loans for operational assistance after an organization becomes a federally qualified health maintenance organization. HEW has provided a total of $98.6 million in grant and loan assistance under the act to 168 organizations. Prior to implementation of the act, 24 of these organizations also received a total of $7.5 million under the Public Health Service Act to develop model health maintenance organizations.