The National Committee for Quality Assurance

NCQA is a nonprofit quality oversight and advocacy organization based in Washington, D.C. Its mission is to improve lives by bringing measurement, transparency, and accountability to health care. NCQA evaluates, accredits, and certifies health-care organizations and medical professionals, including insurance plans and physicians. Forty state governments, many Fortune 500 companies, and the Medicare program rely on NCQA as the "gold standard" of health-care quality monitoring and review. Two out of five Americans-120 million people-receive care from health plans and provider organizations that NCQA evaluates and/or accredits.

Some information and data on health plans in the NCQA rankings comes from the 2010 Directory of Health Plans published by Atlantic Information Services, Inc., including plan names, service areas by state, product types, URLs and websites, and total national enrollments for the five largest health plans that did not submit data to NCQA by product (i.e., HMO, POS, PPO, Medicaid, and Medicare). AIS makes no warranties or representations as to the validity or accuracy of the data.

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