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Health Insurance Plans What You Buy When You Buy Health Insurance
By Evan Davis
What do PPOs, HMOs, and POS plans have in common? They are all forms of managed health plans, and you need to be familiar with them when you shop for health insurance. PPO means preferred provider organization; HMO means health maintanence organization, and POS means point of service.
In general, managed care plans provide their members with health care from within a network of providers. In other words, members can only go to certain doctors and hospitals that belong to or agree to participate with a particular network. Managed care plans also take care of claims processing that result from a medical service.
A health maintenance organization generally pro...
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