Health Insurance Companies Rated by Providers

Providers are now rating the health insurance companies and according to recent reports, Aetna is doing better than other big health insurance plans.

There are several sources now available that rate health insurance companies, each with their own approach. One of the more intriguing is published by the Verden Group (tracks the policy changes that carriers make on a daily basis, alerting providers "to any administrative and clinical policy, procedure and reimbursement changes occurring in the networks in which you participate, at the time these changes are occurring.)

In contrast, athenahealth's payer rating system, PayerView(sm) is designed to evaluate the "ease of doing business with a payer."

In these reports, Aetna & CIGNA performed well while Health Net fared the worst