The National Committee for Quality Assurance has named the top-performing Medicare plans of 2022 based on factors that include care quality, patient satisfaction and efforts to keep improving.
The ratings were released Sept. 15 and are based on 2021 data from commercial, Medicare, Medicaid and ACA plans that reported HEDIS and CAHPS results to the NCQA, which cover 203 million people total. Plans were rated on a zero- to five-star scale, with five being the highest rating. In total, 1,048 plans received a rating.
25 highest-rated Medicare plans:
*Plan star ratings are included in parentheses
- Kaiser Mid-Atlantic HMO in District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia (5)
- Kaiser Colorado HMO (5)
- Medical Associates HMO in Iowa and Illinois (5)
- Medical Associates HMO in Wisconsin (5)
- UCare PPO in Minnesota and Wisconsin (4.5)
- Network Health PPO in Wisconsin (4.5)
- Kaiser Hawaii HMO (4.5)
- Excellus BCBS HMO in New York (4.5)
- Priority Health HMO/POS in Michigan (4.5)
- Priority Health PPO in Michigan (4.5)
- Kaiser Georgia (4.5)
- Kaiser Washington HMO (4.5)
- UCare Minnesota HMO/POS (4.5)
- Kaiser Northwest HMO in Oregon and Washington (4.5)
- Security Health Plan of Wisconsin HMO/POS (4.5)
- Regence Blue Shield of Washington HMO (4.5)
- UPMC PPO (4.5)
- CDPHP HMO in New York (4.5)
- Univera Healthcare HMO in New York (4.5)
- Capital Health Plan HMO in Florida (4.5)
- Quartz HMO in Iowa and Wisconsin (4.5)
- PrimeTime HMO/POS in Ohio (4.5)
- Quartz HMO in Minnesota (4.5)
- Kaiser Southern California HMO (4.5)
- Kaiser Northern California HMO (4.5)