AHCA HMO Report
            
             According to the AHCA HMO Report the health plan that I would choose, as an employer based on the data collected would be AvMed Inc. AvMed is Florida's oldest and largest not-for-profit HMO, serving some 300,000 members, including approximately 30,000 Medicare members throughout the state, and 10,000 federal employees and their dependents. AvMed contracts with close to 7,000 physicians and 126 hospitals, is federally qualified under the terms of the federal HMO Act, and is privately accredited by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) and the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. AvMed was created in 1969 as a prepaid health care system for pilots in Miami's aviation industry. Today, AvMed is Florida's largest not-for-profit health plan. AvMed, whose name is derived from "aviation medicine," became licensed as an HMO in 1973 and earned Federal qualification in 1977. After reviewing the information and statistics on the various health plans, I choose AvMed Inc. because it has an overall high rating in the areas such as Annual Well Child Visit (Ages 3-6) 74%, Annual Adolescent (Well Care Visit) 47%, Asthma Medications (Long-Term Control) 60%. Although AvMed Inc. did not rate under the Florida Medicaid Asthma medication for long- term care; all other areas were covered above average. Based upon the stability of the company and their financial report dated June 30, 2003, AvMed Inc. total assets were $180,085,511, and total liabilities were $126,757,724. The calendar year-to-date net income or (loss) was $19,080,629. Although AvMed received 319 complaints in 2002, this was only a fraction when compared with United Health Care, Health Options, Inc., and Vista Health Plan Inc. who also serve this area. There were slight margins in complaints when compared with CIGNA, and Humana, but this does not have any relevance on the quality of service...