Women's Health
This category shows HMO quality scores for helping women stay healthy and finding disease early. HMOs earn high marks for checking women of certain ages for breast and cervical cancer. Finding these cancers early is key to preventing serious illness or death. Quality HMOs send screening reminders to women, make it easy to get screening tests and help doctors to teach members the value of cancer screening. Quality heath care also means helping people avoid illness — such as seeing that adults at risk get a flu shot. The best HMOs and their doctors communicate with patients about common health risks — like sexually transmitted disease in younger, sexually active women — and test those patients who are more likely to get such infections like Chlamydia.