NEW YORK, Feb. 17, 2006 (PRIMEZONE) -- Medicare y Mucho Mas (MMM), an Aveta company and Puerto Rico's leading provider of Medicare Advantage services, achieved a 100 percentile ranking in "Overall Rating of Health Plan" in the 2004 Medicare Advantage CAHPS Survey of Medicare beneficiaries, the most recent results released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The survey is conducted annually by CMS to assess the experiences of Medicare Advantage beneficiaries.
According to the CMS survey report, 64% of surveyed MMM enrollees gave MMM a rating of '10' on an ascending scale of 0-10 in terms of "Overall Rating of Health Plan," with 10 being "the best health plan possible." MMM's rating on Overall Quality of Health Plan ranked it in the 100th percentile, the highest, of the more than 170 Medicare Advantage plans included in the survey nationwide and compares to both national and regional averages of 37% of enrollees rating their overall health plans a '10'. MMM is part of CMS' Region II, which includes, New York, New jersey, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
"Providing quality healthcare services that meet the needs and improve the quality of life of our beneficiaries is MMM's paramount objective," said Mr. Julio F. Julia, President of MMM Healthcare, Inc. "We are proud of our efforts to improve the healthcare experience of our beneficiaries and will continue to seek ways to enhance the quality and responsiveness of the services we offer."
The CMS 2004 Medicare Advantage CAHPS Survey was conducted between September 2004 and January 2005 and included more than 132,000 current enrollees in 173 Medicare Advantage plans and some 6,500 beneficiaries who had disenrolled from surveyed plans.
About MMM Healthcare, Inc.
Serving more than 100,000 beneficiaries, MMM is Puerto Rico's leading provider of Medicare Advantage health plans with more than 600 employees and a network of more than 5,000 healthcare professionals. Launched in 2000, Medicare y Mucho Mas was the first CMS-contracted Medicare Advantage plan in Puerto Rico and now serves beneficiaries in all 78 of Puerto Rico's municipios.
About Aveta Inc.
Aveta (www.aveta.com) is one of the largest companies focusing on Medicare Advantage and a leader in addressing the unique healthcare needs of the chronically ill. Caring for over 130,000 Medicare beneficiaries, Aveta is the 5th largest for-profit Medicare Advantage enterprise, and operates more Chronic SNPs than any other company. Aveta has a successful track record of managing care for seniors achieved through its core competency of community medical management. Aveta is headquartered in Fort Lee, New Jersey and currently has operating subsidiaries in Southern California, Puerto Rico, and Illinois.