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Article: Boom in alternative medicine may make believers of HMOs.(health maintenance organizations)
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- Insight on the News
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- February 26, 1996
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Health-maintenance organizations see the demand and know reduced stress means fewer doctor visits. Options such as acupuncture, massage and relaxation therapy soon may appear in medical plans.
There's no incense burning, crystal gazing or wind chimes ringing at Kaiser Permanente's Vallejo Medical Center in Northern California. But despite the lack of New Age ambiance, the nation's largest health-maintenance organization is charting a new course in health-care delivery by opening the country's first HMO -based alternative-medicine clinic.
"There's not another HMO in the country that has a clinic specifically set up for this purpose," says Ward Gypson III, who ...