Alliances, associations, networks, and systems of providers

Ambulatory surgery centers

Donor banks (blood, tissue, organs)

Health maintenance organizations

Home care agencies

Hospices

Hospitals (general and specialty)^*

Nursing homes

Preferred provider organizations

Physician offices (large and small group practices, individual practitioners)

Psychiatric facilities

Public health departments

Substance abuse programs

Medicare peer review organizations

Quality assurance companies

Risk management companies

Utilization review and utilization management companies

Business health care coalitions

Employers

Insurers (federal, state, and private)

Disease registries

Health data organizations

Health care technology developers and manufacturers (equipment and device firms, pharmaceutical firms, and computer hardware and software vendors for patient record systems)

Research centers

Allied health professional schools and programs

Schools of medicine

Schools of nursing

Schools of public health

Accreditation organizations

Institutional licensure agencies

Professional licensure agencies

Federal government agencies

Local government agencies

State government agencies