Health insurance: how does your plan compare? Plus, a look to new reforms.
A good insurance plan can steer you to the care that helps and away from wasting your time and money on unnecessary tests and treatments. For the third year running, we are presenting health plan rankings from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), a nonprofit health care accreditation and quality measurement group, of a record 984 plans on their quality of care, customer satisfaction, and commitment to improvement and disclosure of information. This year, the NCQA ranked 474 private plans (which consumers obtain through a job or purchase on their own), 395 Medicare Advantage plans, and 115 Medicaid HMOs.
D000068:Accreditation; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003256:Community Participation; D003258:Consumer Behavior; D005544:Forecasting; D006264:Health Benefit Plans, Employee; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000639:trends*; D006279:Health Maintenance Organizations; D006801:Humans; D019458:Insurance Coverage; D007348:Insurance, Health; D008484:Medicaid; D020398:Medicare Part C; D009939:Organizations, Nonprofit; D011243:Preferred Provider Organizations; D017149:Private Sector; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D013660:Taxes; D014481:United States