What does HMO stand for?

Health Maintenance Organization

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Samples in periodicals archive:

Major types * Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) * Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) * Point-of-service plan (POS) HEALTH-CARE CHOICES: Many individuals can now combine a pretax savings account with a high-deductible health plan to establish a health savings account.

Your well-being

Health Maintenance Organization includes preventative care while Preferred Provider Organization one has to not restrict within their network and don't need a referral to see a specialist.

All About Health Insurance in Brief

Byline: shahma05 Microsoft Corporation and Kaiser Permanente, the largest health maintenance organization in the United States, announced a partnership they believe will help press forward efforts to safely transfer sensitive health data to digitized medical records.

United States: Kaiser, Microsoft Partner in online medical records

It recognized the growing need for the effective management and delivery of healthcare services to underserved Medicaid beneficiaries and expanded it business to operate as a health maintenance organization (HMO).

Weekly profile

Facey is buying the medical centers' equipment, taking over the two leases, hiring their physicians and staffers, and requesting that their health maintenance organizations transfer patients to existing Facey contracts, Swanson said.

FACEY TAKING OVER CLINICS HMO WILL BE AREA'S LARGEST

In 2000, the Little Rock health maintenance organization had $280.

Health Advantage Leaving the Medicare Business

The recent rash of health maintenance organization and physician organization failures is prompting state legislatures across the US to focus less on mandating what these groups do and more on keeping them afloat.

When HMOs go under

In the Connecticut case, 16-year-old Nitai Moscovitch committed suicide in July 1995 after his health maintenance organization, Physicians Health Services (PHS), refused to pay for the boy's continued hospitalization.

Connecticut patients can sue HMOs for negligence