Saturday, July 4, 2009

Best Health Plans

Uncooperative Health Insurance Plans

Here is a list of the largest plans that kept performance data confidential

Posted November 7, 2008

These are the biggest of the 126 health plans that either withheld performance-related data from the National Committee for Quality Assurance or would not let NCQA make it public.

No-Data No-Shows

Commercial Plans Members
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Tex. 227,411
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of N.C. 119,085
WellPath Select (N.C., S.C.) 114,894
Preferred Health Systems (Kan.) 99,943
   
Medicare Plans Members
WellCare of Florida 71,845
Medica (Minn.) 42,248
Peoples Health Network (La.) 36,013
Viva Health (Ala.) 25,000
   
Medicaid Plans Members
CareSource (Ohio) 520,409
HealthFirst (N.Y.) 369,439
Amerigroup Texas 351,413
CalOptima (Calif.) 291,991
Note: Member figures are as of July 31, 2008.
Source: NCQA

Reader Comments

Ratings for Blue Cross & United Healthcare in CA

I'm not seeing any ratings/rankings for either of them and they are large insurance co's who aren't on the uncooperative insurance plans list!

CareSource Perspective

I would like to clarify that CareSource's President and CEO Pamela Morris was scheduled to do an interview with U.S. News & World Report, and the interview was cancelled by the magazine.

Ratings for FCHP/Fallon Community Health Plan

Why do you not have any ratings for the Health Plan? You do have Medicaid ratings for Fallon. Where does FCHP stand as far as Health Plans. I was told they were rated up at the top.

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