PPO

Learn more in our report on health-care plans, find out how to choose a health-care plan, and whether a PPO is a good option for you.

Need health insurance? New rankings of 227 HMOs available 2010

If you like more choice or your primary care doctor is outside the HMO network, consider what they call a PPO, or preferred provider organization.

CNN Transcript Nov 5, 2007 2007

NOW ADMIT: If the user is paying $13K a year in PPO, they are PAYING NO MORE THAN $13K IN HSA

Matthew Yglesias » Advice on Recession-Proofing Your Hospital 2010

Unless the insurance company gets the provider to give you the same discount the insurance company gets (say, in PPO agreements), your deductible is going to disappear in no-time, as you pay 3-10 times the cost that the insurance company would have paid.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » On High Deductible Health Insurance 2009

Learn more in our report on health-care plans, find out how to choose a health-care plan,and whether a PPO is a good option for you.

Need health insurance? New rankings of 227 HMOs available 2010

A PPO, which is a preferred provider organization, is sort of an open HMO, that's how some people describe it.

CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2009 2009

At the moment I do have a PPO, which is less premium than an HMO, and I have a HSA.

Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » My Greatest Fear on the Health Care Bill 2009

My own health plan is a so-called PPO, or preferred-provider organization, which means I pay less when I use doctors and hospitals that have contracts with Aetna Inc., the insurer that administers my employer's coverage.

Tallying the Cost to Bring Baby Home 2009

You know, most of these HMOs have a large network of doctors everything from cancer specialists to dermatologists that should provide what you need, but there are a couple of situations where it might be better to have what's called a PPO, a preferred provider organization.

CNN Transcript Apr 23, 2008 2008

I called the PPO and they said "It's the hospital's responsibility to choose a care that is covered by your policy.

Slashdot: Politics 2008