1.   Ahead of their time, they emphasized prevention and health maintenance rather than treatment.

2.   But it remains to be seen if insurance companies and health maintenance organizations will pay for the screening.

3.   In uncomplicated cases, outpatient procedures can be just as safe as inpatient surgery, and they are less expensive, health maintenance executives say.

4.   It now appears that most HMOs have little to do with health maintenance.

5.   Now they are beginning to accept the idea of investing in employee health maintenance, too.

6.   The group at Harvard, which merged with Pilgrim, has begun training doctors to run behavioral medicine clinics in health maintenance and managed care groups around the country.

7.   Fortunately, people have become more aware of the benefits of using natural, alternative means for health maintenance.