Managing Medications - Northeast - 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
CDPHP 92 Significantly better than Statewide Average 86  89  85  68  84
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield 87 Significantly better than Statewide Average 85  93  84  76 Significantly better than Statewide Average 84
Fidelis Care New York 74  86  88  85 Significantly better than Statewide Average 69 Significantly better than Statewide Average 84
GHI HMO --  85  --  80 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 58  81 Significantly worse than Statewide Average
WellCare of New York 54 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 77 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 83  77 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 63  77 Significantly worse than Statewide Average
Statewide Average 74 85 91 84 65 84
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.