U.S. News and the National Committee for Quality Assurance released, for the fifth year, the America’s Best Health Plan list, ranking commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid health plans.
To assemble the rankings, NCQA analyzed quality-related information from 730 plans. Each was evaluated on dozens of measures in three broad areas: member satisfaction (for example, how well doctors communicate), prevention (such as diligence in screening for various illnesses), and treatment (success in controlling high blood pressure in members with heart disease, for instance). Commercial plans were graded on 50 measures, Medicare plans on 44, and Medicaid plans on 41.