A health care financing and delivery arrangement designed to provide appropriate, effective, and efficient health care through organized relationships with health care providers is the definition of
a. primary care c. managed care
b. tertiary prevention d. per capita services
C
Managed care can be defined as a health care financing and delivery arrangement designed to provide appropriate, effective, and efficient health care through organized relationships with health care providers.
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