HMO

health maintenance organization.

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Examples from the Web for hmo

Contemporary Examples of hmo

It's the biggest insurer in California, using a model that ended up being the basis for the HMO revolution.
Model Health Insurer Has Some of the Highest Rates on the California Exchanges
Megan McArdle
June 14, 2013
In 1998, he left the public sector to work at Harvard Pilgrim, an HMO that was $227 million in the red when he arrived.
The Next Scott Brown?
Samuel P. Jacobs
March 28, 2010

hmo in Medicine

HMO

[āch′ĕm-ō′]

A corporation that is financed by insurance premiums and has member physicians and professional staff who provide curative and preventive medicine within certain financial, geographic, and professional limits to enrolled volunteer members and their families.

hmo in Culture

HMO

An abbreviation for health maintenance organization. A corporation financed by insurance premiums whose member doctors provide medical services to enrolled member patients.