Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A health care plan in which medical costs are controlled by limiting services to a specific network of medical personnel and facilities and usually by requiring referral by a primary-care physician for specialty care.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun acronym A health maintenance organization; a form of group health insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- initialism US, medicine Health
Maintenance Organization - initialism UK Home of Multiple Occupation - a rented house typically let as individual rooms, often to students or migrant workers.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The Healthcare ($HMO - 3. 63\%) group was among Tuesday's weaker groups, and the HMO Index slumped to a new low close.
Millionaire Now! 2008
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With HMO style plans, the person can make a lot of low cost visits but the HMO is able to impose cost controls on both the patient and the doctor.
Health Insurance Idea, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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What happens if word gets out that this HMO is the best place to go if you have diabetes?
VA Hospitals as Quality Leaders, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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More important for the HMO is the ability to control the doctors behavior.
Health Care Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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In principle an HMO is the same thing except taken to a larger extreme.
Health Care First-party Payments, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Riegn in HMO beaurocracy, reign in waste, reign in corruption and things will be better.
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It's niave to pretend that the HMO is evil but the doctor is always the good guy prescribing just the right care.
Health Insurance Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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"Big Business/Pharma/HMO" is worried about profits, not patients.
House Democrats agree on health-care position, chairman says 2009
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So considering that this HMO is costing you probably a few hundred a month why not switch to a catastrophic plan?
Health Care Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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So considering that this HMO is costing you probably a few hundred a month why not switch to a catastrophic plan?
Health Care Reform, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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