Major Insurance
Companies and Diabetes:
Health
Insurance Plans by Companies in Aggregate
How do they rate1?
| Aetna/US Healthcare |
D+ (#7) |
| APWU |
A- (#2) |
| BlueCross/Shield
Programs |
D- (#9)"worst" |
| Cigna |
C (#6) |
| GEHA |
A (#1)"best" |
| Medicare |
B (#4) |
| NALC |
C+ (#5) |
| PHCS |
A-(#2) |
| UnitedHealthCare |
D+ (#7) |
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Criteria:
- Does the carrier care more
about the patient or more about costs?
- Does the carrier work well
with providing physicians to improve overall diabetic
health?
- Does the carrier attempt
to rush patients out of the hospital?
- Does the carrier easily
allow the physician to prescribe what is medically
necessary as opposed to what is formulary?
- How do physicians rate the
carrier?
- How do patients rate the
carrier?
- Were excess complaints
lodged against the carrier by physicians or patients?
- What is the price
of the policy relative to direct
patient-cost outlays?
1.Data on
file (12March2004)
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