AvMed Receives Highest Quality Rating From Nation's Top Health Care Quality Evaluator.MIAMI Miami, cities, United States Miami (mīăm`ē, –ə). 1 City (1990 pop. 358,548), seat of Dade co., SE Fla., on Biscayne Bay at the mouth of the Miami River; inc. 1896. -- AvMed Health Plans has received a rating of "Excellent," the highest possible quality rating given to a health plan, from the country's leading health care quality evaluator. The National Committee for Quality Assurance National Committee for Quality Assurance Medical practice A private, not-for-profit organization which has become the leading accreditor of managed care plans; in site visits, NCQA reviewers evaluate a managed care plan in terms of quality management, physicians' (NCQA NCQA National Committee on Quality Assurance, see there ) upgraded AvMed to the Excellent rating based on recent surveys of quality indicators and member evaluations. The Excellent rating distinguishes AvMed among accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. health plans based on a review of its annual CAHPS CAHPS Consumer Assessment of Health Plans Study CAHPS Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (R) survey, which measures member satisfaction, HEDIS HEDIS Health Plan Employer Data & Information Set Managed care An initiative by the National Committee on Quality Assurance to develop, collect, standardize, and report measures of health plan performances. (R) scores, which measure clinical quality and customer service, and the score from AvMed's Accreditation survey. In order for AvMed to receive the Excellent Accreditation, its annual HEDIS evaluation also had to achieve results in the highest range of performance. "We are extremely proud to be rated by this important organization as one of the highest quality health providers in the country. We take these ratings very seriously because they reflect a long tradition of AvMed providing quality care and customer service to our members. But with that said, we will always strive to continue improving our offerings, making it easier and more convenient for our members to obtain quality health care," said Doug Cueny, AvMed's President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . The rating scorecard will be published by the NCQA this month, and is used by employers and consumers as an evaluation tool when selecting a health plan. Last year AvMed received a Commendable rating. "NCQA's Excellent Accreditation status is reserved for the best health plans in the nation. It is only awarded to those plans that meet or exceed NCQA's rigorous requirements for consumer protection and quality improvement and deliver excellent clinical care," said Margaret E. O'Kane, NCQA President. (a) HEDIS is a registered trademark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). (b) CAHPS is a registered trademark of the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). To achieve the Excellent Accreditation status, AvMed was reviewed against more than 60 different standards and performance measures that fell into the following categories: access and service, qualified provider, staying healthy, getting better and living with illness. NCQA is an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to measuring the quality of America's health plans. About AvMed Health Plans AvMed Health Plans is Florida's oldest and largest not-for-profit health plan, improving access to health care for members for more than 30 years, while serving Florida communities in all major metropolitan areas of the state. Through an extensive medical provider network, AvMed offers health care coverage on a fully insured and self-funded basis for employer groups employer group Association of employers Managed care An entity with a current group benefits agreement in effect with a health plan to provide covered health care services to its employee-subscribers and eligible dependents. in Florida. Additionally, AvMed offers health care products to Medicare beneficiaries in South Florida. AvMed has offices in Miami, Fort Lauderdale Fort Lauderdale (lô`dərdāl), residential, commercial, and resort city (1990 pop. 149,377), seat of Broward co., SE Fla., on the Atlantic coast; settled around a fort built (c.1837) in the Seminole War, inc. 1911. , Palm Beach, Orlando, Tampa, Gainesville and Jacksonville. For more information, visit http://www.avmed.org. About the National Committee for Quality Assurance NCQA is a private, non-profit organization A non-profit organization (abbreviated "NPO", also "non-profit" or "not-for-profit") is a legally constituted organization whose primary objective is to support or to actively engage in activities of public or private interest without any commercial or monetary profit purposes. dedicated to improving health care quality. NCQA accredits and certifies a wide range of health care organizations and manages the evolution of HEDIS(R), the tool the nation's health plans use to measure and report on their performance. NCQA is committed to providing health care quality information through the Web, media and data licensing agreements in order to help consumers, employers and others make more informed health care choices. For more information about the standards or related educational opportunities, visit NCQA's Web site at http://www.ncqa.org. |
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