Health Plan Quality Measures

This section presents health plan quality information for the Healthy Families Program. Each plan provided information on the number of children who received certain preventive care services during 2005. The information provided is based on a nationally recognized quality measurement approach that many purchasers of health insurance consider a standard for measuring health care quality.

This section includes quality information related to four services:

• Childhood Immunizations — measures the percent of children who received all recommended immunizations by age two.
• Well Child Visits — measures the percent of children, ages three through six, who received a preventive health visit.
• Adolescent Well-Care Visits — measures the percent of teens, ages 12 through 18, who received a preventive health visit.
• Children's Access to Primary Care Practitioner — measures the percent of children, ages 1 through 18, who had a healthcare visit with a primary care physician, nurse practitioner, or other primary care provider.

These charts allow you to compare individual health plan scores for each measure.

Plan scores vary widely among measures. In other words, a plan's high/low score in one measure may not indicate a high/low score in another measure. The information is presented for your review and should be used in combination with other factors you consider important in making your health plan choice.

How to read the charts

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