HMO

1. health maintenance organization.

HMO

1. An abbreviation for h ealth m aintenance o rganization. A corporation financed by insurance premiums whose member doctors provide medical services to enrolled member patients.

Example Sentences

It's the biggest insurer in California, using a model that ended up being the basis for the HMO revolution.

From The Daily Beast

Before I switched to this work I was an internist for a large HMO, entering my notes into an EMR.

From The Daily Beast

That would certainly be of use in trading HMO stocks such as Aetna or Cigna.

From The Daily Beast

In 1998, he left the public sector to work at Harvard Pilgrim, an HMO that was $227 million in the red when he arrived.

From The Daily Beast

Now all this is what actually takes place in words like hmo-ptysis (spitting of blood), sema-phore (a sort of telegraph).

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