Anthem Health Plans in Maine and New Hampshire also made U.S. News & World Report/NCQA's Top 20 commercial plans.
"America's Best Health Plans is a practical tool that helps consumers make informed decisions when choosing a health plan," said NCQA President Margaret E. O'Kane. "It lets consumers know which plans have demonstrated they can deliver the highest levels of care and service."
The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) is a private, non-profit organization dedicated to improving health care quality. NCQA accredits and certifies a wide range of health care organizations and manages the evolution of HEDIS, the performance measurement tool used by more than 90 percent of the nation's health plans. NCQA is committed to providing health care quality information through the web and the media in order to help consumers, employers and others make more informed health care choices.
Founded in 1933, the weekly news magazine, U.S. News & World Report, is
devoted to investigative journalism and reporting and to analyzing national
and international affairs, politics, business, health, science, technology
and social trends. Through its annual rankings of America's Best Colleges,
America's Best Graduate Schools and America's Best Hospitals, and its News
You Can Use Brand, U.S. News has earned a reputation as the leading
provider of service news and information that improves the quality of life
of its readers. Available online at http://www.usnews.com, U.S. News, for
the second time in a row, was named the most credible newsweekly by the Pew
Biennial News Consumption Survey and the most credible news organization in
print. "America's Best Health Plans"
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