HMO
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See also: ḥmo
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]HMO (plural HMOs)
- (US, medicine) Initialism of health maintenance organization.
- Coordinate term: PPO
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 325:
- By the mid-1990s, seven states required HMOs to pay for bone marrow transplantation.
- (UK) Initialism of home/house in/of multiple occupation/occupancy: a rented house typically let as individual rooms, often to students or migrant workers.