Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO)

Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO).
It’s a strategy in which the service provider bears the most liability, and the individual has the least amount of control (Plocher, 2001). Age and sexuality are considered when assigning medical care to patients in this program. The patient’s utilization of the hospital services is not taken into account. An individual may be forced to pay a small fee for the medical services. Health care quality and case administration are improved due to advance service fees. Plocher (2001) maintained that a medical program is an arrangement where a client does have a combination of a PPO and an HMO. PPO and MMO take on different risks with the goal of providing better and more cost-effective treatment to people.