Managing Cardiovascular and Respiratory Conditions - Statewide - Commercial Managed Care

Plan Controlling
High Blood
Pressure**
Cholesterol Management After Cardiovascular Event Persistence
of Beta
Blocker Use
Use of Appropriate
Medications for
People With Asthma
(Ages 18-56)
Use of Spirometry
Testing in the
Assessment and
Diagnosis of COPD
Cholesterol
Screening
Test
Cholesterol Level
Controlled
(<100 mg/dL)
Aetna 43 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 88  53 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 72  91  54 Significantly better than Statewide Average
BSNENY 56  86 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 46 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 71  91  30 Significantly worse than Statewide Average
CDPHP 64 Significantly better than Statewide Average 90  63  82  91  36 Significantly worse than Statewide Average
CIGNA 58  91  58  --  93  59 Significantly better than Statewide Average
Community Blue 58  91  62  72  92  39 Significantly worse than Statewide Average
Empire 55  92  64  80  92  60 Significantly better than Statewide Average
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield NA  90  68 Significantly better than Statewide Average 80  91  43 Significantly worse than Statewide Average
GHI HMO 70 Significantly better than Statewide Average 90  55  --  93  42
HIP 58  90  54 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 76  90  42 Significantly worse than Statewide Average
Health Net of New York, Inc. 65 Significantly better than Statewide Average 94 Significantly better than Statewide Average 66 Significantly better than Statewide Average 73  93  58 Significantly better than Statewide Average
Independent Health 69 Significantly better than Statewide Average 91  66 Significantly better than Statewide Average 84 Significantly better than Statewide Average 97 Significantly better than Statewide Average 37 Significantly worse than Statewide Average
MVP 72 Significantly better than Statewide Average 87 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 65 Significantly better than Statewide Average 81  91  37 Significantly worse than Statewide Average
Oxford 39 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 93 Significantly better than Statewide Average 51 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 77  92  57 Significantly better than Statewide Average
Preferred Care 61  91  70 Significantly better than Statewide Average 76  89 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 39 Significantly worse than Statewide Average
Univera HealthCare 64 Significantly better than Statewide Average 91  62  68  87 Significantly worse than Statewide Average 30 Significantly worse than Statewide Average
Statewide Average 58 91 60 77 92 46
National Average 62 88 59 72 91 36
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.
** Rotated measure. Data is from 2006.
NA Data Not Available

Note Plans without symbols are consistent with the statewide average.

National average is based on 2007 data from the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA).