health maintenance organization
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of health maintenance organization
First recorded in 1970–75
Example Sentences
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Moreland, 80 years old, doesn’t want a more restrictive setup, like a health maintenance organization, or HMO, which would likely have a limited network.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The organization operates like a health maintenance organization, in which it is paid a fixed sum to care for someone through a closed network of hospitals and doctors.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2023
Early unpublished data from an Israeli health maintenance organization suggest that a third booster dose is highly effective in areas where the delta variant is dominant, according to the Pfizer document.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 15, 2021
The other study comes from researchers at the Kahn Sagol Maccabi Research and Innovation Center at MHS, Israel’s second-largest health maintenance organization.
From Science Magazine ● Sep. 1, 2021
Dr. Fourcroy, a resident of Bethesda, Md., was born in New Haven, Conn., and came to the Washington area in 1974 and became a staff urologist at Group Health Association, a health maintenance organization.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2016
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