America's Best Health Plans Honor Roll

The 20 healthcare plans on this elite list outperformed hundreds of others

Posted November 7, 2008

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 Mass., Maine	HMO/POS	91.2
2	Tufts Associated Health Maintenance Organization Mass., N.H., R.I.	HMO/POS	91.2
3	Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England N.H.	HMO/POS	90.6
4	Grand Valley Health Plan Mich.	HMO	89.1
5	Geisinger Health Plan Pa.	HMO/POS	88.2
6	Health New England Conn., Mass.	HMO/POS	88.1
7	Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield - Connecticut	HMO/POS	87.8
8	Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin	HMO	87.8
9	Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts	HMO/POS	87.8
10	CIGNA HealthCare of New Hampshire	HMO/POS	87.6

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Best Medicare plans

Rank	Plan	Type	Score
1	Preferred Care N.Y.	HMO	88.4
2	Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Southern California	HMO	88.1
3	Geisinger Health Plan Pa.	HMO	88.0
4	Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts	HMO	87.9
5	Security Health Plan of Wisconsin	HMO	87.4

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Best Medicaid plans

Rank	Plan	Type	Score
1	Fallon Community Health Plan Mass.	HMO	89.8
2	Neighborhood Health Plan Mass.	HMO	89.3
3	Excellus BlueCross BlueShield N.Y.	HMO	89.3
4	Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island	HMO	89.1
5	Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Hawaii	HMO	88.3

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(Note: Identical scores are due to rounding.)

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