This fall, in time to help the many Americans who will be choosing health plans during open enrollment, NCQA's independent health insurance plan rankings 2010-2011 will be published online and in the November issue of Consumer Reports magazine, ensuring that this information reaches millions of consumers.
NCQA's health insurance plan rankings 2010-2011 will use NCQA's established rankings methodology, which has been used and widely recognized since 2005. Consumers Union (CU), the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports, and NCQA have agreed to collaborate in 2011 to develop new ways to help consumers evaluate the quality of health insurance plans.
Visitors to Consumer Reports’ health site will be able to access NCQA's rankings and related information and "drill down" to NCQA’s detailed information about ranked plans’ performances based on member satisfaction, prevention and treatment. Detailed findings will include information about cancer screening and care for asthma, diabetes and heart disease. Visitors will also be able to use a "compare" function to contrast and judge as many as five plans at a time.
NCQA anticipates evaluating over 700 health plans and ranking approximately 500 of those based on clinical performance, member satisfaction and NCQA accreditation. To be eligible for rankings, health plans must authorize public release of their performance information and submit enough data for statistically valid analysis.
The publication of health ratings has been an area of significant growth and expansion at Consumer Reports under the auspices of the newly formed Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center, which to date has published rankings of more than 3,000 U.S. hospitals and prescription drugs for more than 20 medical conditions, in addition to a wide variety of healthy living products ranging from sunscreens to ellipticals.
Source: NCQA, July 22, 2010
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