How to Use health maintenance organization in a Sentence

health maintenance organization

noun
  • State lawmakers passed a tax on health maintenance organizations and hospital fees to cover the state’s share.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Sep. 2019
  • WellMed sought to become the largest Medicare health maintenance organization in the country.
    — Patrick Danner, San Antonio Express-News, 29 Aug. 2022
  • In the 1990s, health maintenance organizations grew in many parts of the country as employers and insurers sought to improve care and lower costs.
    — Mitchell Schnurman, Dallas News, 19 Apr. 2020
  • The new law’s requirement to timely refund overpayments doesn’t apply to overpayments made to providers by health insurers and health maintenance organizations.
    — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 25 Dec. 2025
  • The insurer is raising rates on its ACA health maintenance organization plans by around 23% on average.
    — Anna Wilde Mathews, WSJ, 18 Oct. 2017
  • Other options include dental savings plans and dental health maintenance organizations, or DHMOs.
    — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2017
  • Republicans have proposed the tax increase on health insurance providers, known as health maintenance organizations or HMOs, to fill a growing gap in the state's Medicaid budget.
    — Stephen Gruber-Miller, Des Moines Register, 18 Mar. 2026
  • In one telling aspect of the situation, Kaiser Permanente, the giant health maintenance organization, is sending letters to its patients on opioids, warning that their treatments will come under scrutiny.
    — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Back then, a backlash against the limitations of HMOs, or health maintenance organizations, propelled many employers to move workers into these plans, which were supposed to empower patients and control costs.
    — Noam Levey, NPR, 8 Dec. 2025
  • 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
  • Community First is a licensed health maintenance organization — an HMO that provides insurance through contracts with physician groups, hospitals and other health providers.
    — Laura Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 19 Oct. 2020
  • Arnold ushered in three decades of robust enforcement, including a landmark case against the American Medical Association, which allowed doctors to work with health maintenance organizations for the first time.
    — Amitrajeet A. Batabyal, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2020
  • When Health Net, a California nonprofit health maintenance organization, converted to a for-profit insurance company in 1992, regulators required that 80% of its equity be transferred to another nonprofit health foundation.
    — Alnoor Ebrahim, The Conversation, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Caitlin Rother, a 63-year-old novelist in San Diego, tried to be proactive in switching her Covered California plan from a PPO (preferred provider organization) plan to a lower-cost HMO (health maintenance organization) plan to save money.
    — Sara Dinatale, San Francisco Chronicle, 20 Jan. 2026

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