Table 2.
List of health insurance attributes used in our analysis based on the data allocated. All attributes in this table are from NCQA.
| Category | Attribute | Description |
| General information | PlanName | Insurance plan name. |
| State | The state to which the plan belongs. | |
| PlanCategory | The category of the plan, eg, private, Medicare, Medicaid. | |
| PlanType | The type of the plan, eg, preferred provider organization (PPO), health maintenance organization (HMO). | |
| Quality indicators – Overall | Rank | The overall rank of the plan. |
| OverallScore | The overall score of the plan. | |
| Quality indicators – Customer service | OverallConsumerSatisfactionScore | The score for consumer satisfaction. |
| GettingCareScore | Scores based on appointments, preventive care, test, and easy and quick access to treatments. | |
| SatisfactionWithPhysiciansScore | Scores based on providers, care revived and health promotion and education. | |
| SatisfactionWithHealthPlanServicesScore | Scores based on handling claims and other plans services. | |
| Quality indicators – Prevention | OverallPreventionScore | The score for preventive care. |
| ChildrenAndAdolescentsScore | Scores based on well-child visits, immunizations, nutrition counseling, physical activity counseling. | |
| Women’sReproductiveHealthScore | Scores based on prenatal checkup and postpartum care. | |
| CancerScreeningScore | Scores based on various cancer screenings. | |
| OtherPreventiveServicesScore | Scores based on flu vaccinations, chlamydia screening, and other preventive care. | |
| Quality indicators – Treatment | OverallTreatmentScore | The score for different treatments. |
| AsthmaTreatmentScore | Scores based on asthma medication and treatment. | |
| DiabetesTreatmentScore | Scores based on blood pressure control, glucose testing and control, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol screening and control, monitoring kidney diseases. | |
| HeartDiseaseTreatmentScore | Scores based on controlling blood pressure and cholesterol and beta-blockers after heart attack. | |
| MentalAndBehavioralHealthScore | Scores based on depression medication, alcohol and drug dependence treatment, etc. | |
| OtherTreatmentMeasuresScore | Scores based on monitoring key long-term medications, antibiotic use, testing for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, etc. |