health maintenance organization

noun

: hmo

Examples of health maintenance organization in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Walz is also proposing increasing the current surcharge on health maintenance organizations from 0.6% to 1.25% of total premium revenue. —Mary Murphy, Twin Cities, 22 Mar. 2025

The investment bank polled 27 health maintenance organizations, pharmacy benefit managers, and hospitals during the fourth quarter of 2024, post-election. —Bruce Gil, Quartz, 28 Jan. 2025

Hearing Aids for Adults – Coverage: Requires insurers, nonprofit health service plans, and health maintenance organizations that provide certain health insurance benefits under insurance policies or contracts, to provide hearing aid coverage for adults. —Teresa Reilly, Baltimore Sun, 15 Feb. 2024

One law will prevent insurers and health maintenance organizations from imposing copayments, coinsurance or deductible requirements for breast examinations. —Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 1 Jan. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1971, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for health maintenance organization

• abbreviation
• abomination
• acceleration
• accentuation
• accommodation
• accreditation
• acculturation
• accumulation
• acetylation
• adjudication
• administration
• adulteration

Medical Definition

health maintenance organization

noun

health main·​te·​nance or·​ga·​ni·​za·​tion -ˈmānt-nən(t)s-ˌȯrg-(ə-)nə-ˈzā-shən, -ˈmānt-ᵊn-ən(t)s- 

: hmo