Saturday, November 21, 2009

Best Health Plans

Uncooperative Health Insurance Plans

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

Posted November 11, 2009

Not all of the health insurance plans analyzed by the National Committee for Quality Assurance for America's Best Health Insurance Plans made their data available. Of 730 plans, 120 either declined to provide data to NCQA or reported it but would not permit it to be made public. The plans listed here are the largest nonreporters.

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Commercial plans Members
Altius Health Plans (Idaho, Utah, Wyo.) 183,080
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas 161,870
FIRSTCARE (Texas) 104,484
Physicians Plus Insurance Corporation (Wis.) 96,590
CommunityCare Managed Healthcare Plans of Oklahoma 86,533

 

Medicare plans Members
WellCare of Florida 80,950
Peoples Health Network (La.) 41,346
Windsor Health Plan (Ala., Ark., Miss., S.C., Tenn.) 27,778
WellCare of New York 27,326
HealthSpring (Ala.) 27,307

 

Medicaid plans Members
HealthEase of Florida 816,459
AMERIGROUP Texas 450,664
Horizon NJ Health 377,463
Arizona Physicians IPA 293,180
MDwise (Ind.) 279,670

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Note: Members are as of July 31, 2009.

Source: The data source for the following plan information is the 2009 Directory of Health Plans published by Atlantic Information Services Inc.: health insurance plan names, service areas by state, product types, URLs/websites, and total enrollments nationally for the five largest health plans that did not submit data to NCQA, by product (i.e. commercial, Medicare, Medicaid, HMO, POS). AIS makes no warranties or representations as to the validity or accuracy of the data.

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