CompcareBlue Earns NCQA Accreditation.Business Editors, Health Writers MILWAUKEE--(BW HealthWire)--Aug. 4, 2000 Compcare Health Services Insurance Corporation (CompcareBlue) has been awarded an 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. Status from 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 ). CompcareBlue earned its Accredited Status for service and clinical quality that meet NCQA's rigorous requirements for consumer protection and quality improvement. "NCQA accreditation demonstrates to our customers and the health care industry CompcareBlue's commitment to quality," Mary Traver, president of CompcareBlue, said. "NCQA provided us an unbiased review of our plan and reported back that we have met their stringent standards." NCQA is an independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to assessing and reporting on the quality of managed care plans, managed behavioral health care organizations, physician organizations, and credentials verification organizations. The NCQA Accreditation process is a voluntary review in which a health plan is evaluated to determine how it ensures that its members are receiving high quality care. The NCQA Standards for Accreditation are purposely set high to encourage health plans to continuously enhance their quality. Compcare Health Services Insurance Corporation was formed in 1971 and is Wisconsin's oldest health maintenance organization. It is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of United Wisconsin Services, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : UWZ), one of the nation's leading managed care companies, serving 2.0 million lives in 49 states. Compcare Health Services Insurance Corporation was recently named a licensed affiliate of Blue Cross & Blue Shield United of Wisconsin (www.bluecrosswisconsin.com) and an independent licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
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