America's Best Health Plans Honor Roll

The Honor Roll recognizes the very best of the hundreds of commercial, Medicare, and Medicaid managed-care plans reviewed for this year's U.S. News health plan rankings. Plans were scored from 0 to 100 based on data collected and analyzed by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, managed care's major accrediting and standards-setting body.

Best commercial plans

Rank	Plan	Type	Score
1	Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Mass., Maine	HMO/POS	91.2
2	Tufts Associated Health Maintenance Organization Mass., N.H., R.I.	HMO/POS	91.2
3	Harvard Pilgrim Health Care of New England N.H.	HMO/POS	90.6
4	Grand Valley Health Plan Mich.	HMO	89.1
5	Geisinger Health Plan Pa.	HMO/POS	88.2
6	Health New England Conn., Mass.	HMO/POS	88.1
7	Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield - Connecticut	HMO/POS	87.8
8	Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin	HMO	87.8
9	Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts	HMO/POS	87.8
10	CIGNA HealthCare of New Hampshire	HMO/POS	87.6

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Best Medicare plans

Rank	Plan	Type	Score
1	Preferred Care N.Y.	HMO	88.4
2	Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Southern California	HMO	88.1
3	Geisinger Health Plan Pa.	HMO	88.0
4	Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts	HMO	87.9
5	Security Health Plan of Wisconsin	HMO	87.4

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Best Medicaid plans

Rank	Plan	Type	Score
1	Fallon Community Health Plan Mass.	HMO	89.8
2	Neighborhood Health Plan Mass.	HMO	89.3
3	Excellus BlueCross BlueShield N.Y.	HMO	89.3
4	Neighborhood Health Plan of Rhode Island	HMO	89.1
5	Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Hawaii	HMO	88.3

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(Note: Identical scores are due to rounding.)