health maintenance organization

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health maintenance organization Meaning of "health maintenance organization"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) group insurance that entitles members to services of participating hospitals and clinics and physicians

Usage(s):

  1. In one case, a California health maintenance organization discovered that the fetus a client was carrying had the gene for cystic fibrosis.
  2. In Los Angeles last month, 500 unionized nurses struck a Kaiser Permanente hospital in a contract squabble with the big health maintenance organization.
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