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Buckeye Community Health Plan

Medicaid | HMO | www.bchpohio.com

   
States: Ohio
Rank: -
Score: No score—insufficient data
NCQA Accredited: Yes

How This Plan Performed (methodology)

Consumer assessmentI

Getting care I
Getting care needed NR
Getting care needed quickly NR
Satisfaction with physicians I
How well doctors communicate NR
High rating of personal doctor NR
High rating of specialists NR
High rating of care received NR
Satisfaction with plan services I
High rating of plan services NR

Prevention
2

Children and adolescents
3
Well-child visits (birth to 15 months)
2
Well-child visits (3-6 years old)
2
Access for children (7-11 years old)
2
Adolescent well-care visits
2
Immunizing children and adolescents
2
All immunizations at age 2
2
All immunizations at age 13
2
Women's reproductive health
2
Timeliness of prenatal checkups
2
Postpartum care
1
Cancer screening
3
Breast cancer screening
3
Cervical cancer screening
2
Other preventive services
Chlamydia screening (16-25 years old)
4

Treatment
3

Asthma
4
Medicate appropriately (5-9 years old)
3
Medicate appropriately (10-17 years old)
4
Medicate appropriately (18-56 years old)
3
Diabetes
1
Retinal eye exams
2
Glucose testing
1
Glucose control
1
LDL cholesterol screening
1
LDL cholesterol control
1
Monitoring kidney disease
1
Heart disease
2
Controlling high blood pressure NR
Advising smokers to quit
3
Discussing stop-smoking strategies
3
Discussing stop-smoking medications
3
Other treatment measures
Monitoring of key long-term medications
2
Appropriate antibiotic use, children with URI
3
Appropriate testing and care, children with pharyngitis
3
Appropriate antibiotic use, adults with acute bronchitis
1

I = Insufficient Data; NA = Not applicable; NR = Not reported

Note: Apparent ties are due to rounding. Accreditation status is as of July 31, 2007.

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