Managing Medications - Western - Commercial Managed Care

Plan Drug Therapy
in Rheumatoid
Arthritis
Annual Monitoring for Patients on Persistent Medications
ACE Inhibitors
or ARB's
Digoxin Diuretics Anticonvulsants Combined Rate
Blue Choice 91 Significantly better than Statewide Average 73 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 75 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 72 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 59  72 Significantly worse than Statewide Average
Community Blue 88 Significantly better than Statewide Average 74 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 78  73 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 54 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 73 Significantly worse than Statewide Average
GHI HMO Select 57 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 83 Significantly better than Statewide Average 83  83 Significantly better than Statewide Average 72 Significantly better than Statewide Average 83 Significantly better than Statewide Average
Independent Health 84  77 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 73 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 76  58  76 Significantly worse than Statewide Average
Preferred Care 89 Significantly better than Statewide Average 77 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 80  76 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 64  76 Significantly worse than Statewide Average
Univera HealthCare 82  77 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 78  78  60  77
Upstate HMO 82  75 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 66 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 76  74 Significantly better than Statewide Average 75 Significantly worse than Statewide Average
Statewide Average 83 78 78 77 61 77
Significantly better than Statewide Average Significantly better than the statewide average.
Significantly worse than Statewide Average Significantly worse than the statewide average.

Note Plans without symbols are consistent with the statewide average.