2) The columnar organization of the preferred response in Figure 7 is a very interesting finding.
10.7554/eLife.03405.017 Figure 5. Spatial organization of texture preferring neurons during artificial whisking.
About a dozen states limit who can use the process, excluding, for example, people who are part of preferred provider organizations or have individual health plans.
The HIRD contains a broad, clinically rich spectrum of longitudinal claims data from 14 health maintenance organizations, point-of-service, preferred provider organizations, and indemnity plans in the northeastern, southeastern, mid-Atlantic, midwestern, and western regions of the US.
Respondents were classified as being "with insurance" if they reported any of the following as their type of insurance: health maintenance organization, preferred provider organization, traditional indemnity insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, or other.
Health insurance related variables included type of plan (health maintenance organization, indemnity, preferred provider organization, point of service, others), type of payer (commercial, public, self-insured), and pharmacy benefit plans.
Among that organization's preferred methods of attack was bombing with plastic explosives (to which Marker and Lhomme allude in the film's voice-over).
Explanatory variables in the base model included: a) age (18 34, 35 44, 45 54, 55 64, or 65+ years); b) sex; c) plan type (health maintenance organization, preferred provider organization, point of sale, indemnity, or unknown); d) geographic region; e) payer type (commercial, Medicaid, Medicare, self-insured, or other); f) physician specialty; and g) Charlson comorbidity index score.
Most patients were from the northeast region of the United States (63.8%) and 83.1% of patients had HMO (health maintenance organization) or PPO (preferred provider organization) insurance.
We evaluated demographic characteristics, including age, gender, and the 4 U.S. geographic regions of residence (i.e., Northeast, Midwest, South, and West), and type of health insurance plan (i.e., comprehensive, health maintenance organization, preferred provider organization, and other).
