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Best Health Plans

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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