I try not to toot the Harvard Pilgrim horn too much in these postings, but I can’t let the fact go by that we have been recognized for the fifth year in a row by U.S. News & World Report and the National Committee on Quality Assurance (NCQA) as the highest rated commercial health plan in the country. […]

The Health Care Blog ran a posting entitled “To Change Health Care, Change Diabetes”. The title overreaches, but the argument – that early diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of diabetes would reduce health care costs – is certainly true. The article calls for more measurement of quality, coordination of care, and aggressive treatment.

It is well known […]

For the past four years, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) has teamed with U.S.News & World Report to prepare a national ranking on health plans using member satisfaction and clinical effectiveness information compiled by NCQA to build individual scorecards for each participating carrier.  This is the equivalent of the U.S.News forays into colleges, hospitals, and other elite […]