Managing Medications - Western - Medicaid 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 Option 78  78 Significantly worse than Statewide Average --  78 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 58  77 Significantly worse than Statewide Average
Community Blue 73  74 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 72 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 73 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 63  73 Significantly worse than Statewide Average
Fidelis Care New York 73  85  88  83 Significantly better than Statewide Average 71 Significantly better than Statewide Average 83 Significantly better than Statewide Average
Independent Health's MediSource 65  87 Significantly better than Statewide Average 90  86 Significantly better than Statewide Average 71  85 Significantly better than Statewide Average
Preferred Care --  86  --  84  74  84
Univera Community Health --  77 Significantly worse than Statewide Average --  80  --  77 Significantly worse than Statewide Average
Statewide Average 72 84 87 82 65 82
Significantly better than Statewide Average Significantly better than the statewide average.
Significantly worse than Statewide Average Significantly worse than the statewide average.
-- Sample size too small to report.

Note Plans without symbols are consistent with the statewide average.