HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does health maintenance organization mean? 

• HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION (noun)
  The noun HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION has 1 sense:

1. group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians

  Familiarity information: HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Synonyms:

health maintenance organization; HMO

Hypernyms ("health maintenance organization" is a kind of...):

health insurance (insurance against loss due to ill health)

 Context examples 

The group headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and has research sites at nearly 200 major medical centers, university hospitals, large oncology practice groups, and health maintenance organizations in the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, and Australia.

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