Dollar Scholar Asks: What Do PPO, HMO and Other Health Plan Acronyms Mean?
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Julia Glum
Julia Glum
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In journalism school, I was always taught to avoid "alphabet soup," or the tendency to overuse acronyms in my writing. They're confusing and hard to keep track of, like a long-form version of that famous "IDK, my BFF Jill?" commercial.
One place where alphabet soup simply cannot be avoided, however, is in health insurance. It’s an absolute mess of ABCs, making a topic that already feels like it's in another language even more baffling.
Let’s try to translate them.
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What are the most important health insurance acronyms, and are they relevant to me?
