Honor Roll

Posted October 25, 2007

The Honor Roll recognizes the very best of the hundreds of commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid managed-care plans reviewed for this year's U.S. News health plan rankings. Plans were scored from 0 to 100 based on data collected and analyzed by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, managed care's major accrediting and standards-setting body.

Best commercial plans

Rank	Plan	Type	Score
1	Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Maine, Mass.	HMO/POS	91.7
2	Tufts Associated Health Maintenance Organization Mass., N.H., R.I.	HMO/POS	90.8
3	Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England N.H.	HMO/POS	90.6
4	Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts Mass.	HMO/POS	89.0
5	ConnectiCare Conn.	HMO/POS	88.9
6	Health Net of Connecticut Conn.	HMO/POS	88.6
7	Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, Rochester Region N.Y.	HMO/POS	88.4
8	Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin Wis.	HMO	88.3
9	Health New England Conn., Mass.	HMO/POS	88.2
10	Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield—Connecticut Conn.	HMO/POS	88.2

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Best Medicare plans

Rank	Plan	Type	Score
1	Fallon Community Health Plan Mass.	HMO	86.4
2	Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts Mass.	HMO	86.0
3	Tufts Associated Health Maintenance Organization Mass.	HMO	85.8
4	Preferred Care N.Y.	HMO	85.7
5	Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Northwest Ore., Wash.	HMO	85.5

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Best Medicaid plans

Rank	Plan	Type	Score
1	Fallon Community Health Plan Mass.	HMO	90.0
2	Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island R.I.	HMO	88.7
3	Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island R.I.	POS	88.1
4	Capital District Physicians' Health Plan N.Y.	HMO	87.8
5	Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, Rochester Region N.Y.	HMO	87.4

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(Note: Identical scores are due to rounding.)

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