managed care. 1. a healthcare plan or system that seeks to control medical costs by contracting with a network of providers. Medicaid managed care firms like his are paid a set amount per member per month by the state to cover all their medical costs.
(Redirected from Osorno Volcano). Osorno Volcano is a 2,652-metre (8,701 ft) tall conical stratovolcano lying between Osorno Province and Llanquihue Province, in Los Lagos Region of Chile.he upper slopes of the volcano are almost entirely covered in glaciers despite its very modest altitude and latitude, sustained by the substantial snowfall in the very moist maritime climate of the region. Osorno sits on top of a 250,000-year-old eroded stratovolcano, La Picada, with a 6-km-wide caldera.
I n a Vesuvian eruption, as typified by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy in A.D. 79, great quantities of ash-laden gas are violently discharged to form cauliflower-shaped cloud high above the volcano. Mount Vesuvius Volcano, Italy, 1944. Mauna Loa Volcano, Hawaii, 1950. Kilauea Volcano, Hawaii, 1959. uring an episode of activity, a volcano commonly displays a distinctive pattern of behavior. Some mild eruptions merely discharge steam and other gases, whereas other eruptions quietly extrude quantities of lava.