Saturday, May 17, 2008

Best Health Plans

Coventry Health Care of Iowa

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

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

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

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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