health maintenance organization

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

   SynonymsHMO

   Broaderhealth insurance

Questions about health maintenance organization

What does health maintenance organization mean?

health maintenance organization means "group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians".

What is another word for health maintenance organization?

Close synonyms include HMO. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is health maintenance organization a common word?

health maintenance organization is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.