health maintenance organization

American  

noun

1. a plan for comprehensive health services, prepaid by an individual or by a company for its employees, that provides treatment, preventive care, and hospitalization to each participating member in a central health center. HMO

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Etymology

Origin of health maintenance organization

First recorded in 1970–75

Example Sentences

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health maintenance organization

Big Medicare insurers are paring back their preferred provider organization designs, known as PPOs, while bolstering their more-restrictive health maintenance organization plans, known as HMOs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2025

Most Advantage plans work like a health maintenance organization.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 23, 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

That’s especially important if your insurance is a closed network like a health maintenance organization, with no coverage for out-of-network care.

From New York Times ● Jul. 7, 2017

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