Assertion: health maintenance organization | /r/CapableOf | administer benefit
Facets:
value: through private employer health plans
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Since the 1980s, under the ERISA Act passed in Congress in 1974 and its preemptive effect on state common law tort lawsuits that "relate to" Employee Benefit Plans, HMOs administering benefits through private employer health plans have been protected by federal law from malpractice litigation, on the grounds that the decisions regarding patient care are administrative rather than medical in nature.