Thursday, May 15, 2008

Best Health Plans

USN Current Issue

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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