Press Releases: 2009

AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies’ Health Plans
Ranked Among Top 30 in U.S. News & World Report/NCQA Listing

America's Best Health Insurance Plans 2009-10 rates Passport Health Plan #13,
AmeriHealth Mercy Health Plan #25, and Keystone Mercy Health Plan #26 for Medicaid Plans

November 13, 2009
Philadelphia, PA –Three Medicaid health plans associated with the AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies were ranked among the top 30 Medicaid health plans nationwide for the second year in a row, according to U.S. News & World Report/NCQA’s America’s Best Health Insurance Plans 2009-10.

Out of nearly 200 Medicaid health plans in the nation, AmeriHealth Mercy Health Plan in Harrisburg, PA, was ranked 25th. Keystone Mercy Health Plan in southeastern Pennsylvania improved nine places from 35th to 26th.  Passport Health Plan, owned by University Health Care, Inc. in Louisville, KY., was ranked 13th.  AmeriHealth Mercy serves as the third-party administrator for Passport Health Plan.

“We are very pleased to be ranked among the top Medicaid managed care plans in the country by U.S. News & World Report/NCQA America’s Best Health Plans,” said Daniel J. Hilferty, President and Chief Executive Officer, AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies. “Our associates work hard every day to carry out our company mission of improving access to quality and accessible health care services for our members.”

The AmeriHealth Mercy Family of Companies is a mission-driven organization, dedicated to ensuring the delivery of quality health care to low-income populations covered by publicly funded programs throughout the United States. With more than 25 years of experience exclusively serving the Medicaid population, AmeriHealth Mercy and its affiliates comprise the largest family of Medicaid managed care plans in the United States, touching the lives of more than 6.5 million members nationwide.

Released in the print edition of U.S. News & World Report (and available online at www.usnews.com/healthplans), this collaborative study ranked the nation’s commercial, Medicare and Medicaid health plans based on:

• Access to care, including a member’s ability to get needed care quickly and a health plan's customer service,
• Overall member satisfaction,
• Preventive services, including health screenings, prenatal care, childhood and adolescent immunizations and well-child visits,
• Treatment, how well the plan takes care of ongoing health problems,
• Overall quality score, a combination of the scores from the four main categories above, along with NCQA accreditation.

“America’s Best Health Insurance Plans” is a trademark of U.S. News & World Report.

For more information about AmeriHealth Mercy please visit www.amerihealthmercy.com.