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Group Health Cooperative

Medicaid | HMO | www.ghc.org

   
States: Washington
Rank: 90
Score: 55.9
NCQA Accredited: No

Score reflects results of consumer surveys and success in preventing and treating illness compared with average plan. Here's how this plan was viewed by members and how it performed in prevention and treatment, broken down into 35 individual measures.

How This Plan Performed (methodology)

Consumer assessment
3

Getting care
4
Getting care needed
5
Getting care needed quickly
3
Satisfaction with physicians
3
How well doctors communicate
3
High rating of personal doctor
3
High rating of specialists
3
High rating of care received
3
Satisfaction with plan services
3
High rating of plan services
3

Prevention
2

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

Treatment I

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

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

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

In association with NCQA.

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