Should I buy health insurance from AvMed Health Plans?

Welcome to AvMed, the health plan with your health in mind. For close to four decades, Floridians have counted on us for our superior network of doctors, specialists and hospitals, and our personalized round-the-clock customer support. We offer the benefits of a national provider, with the flexibility of a regional plan. Service is the name of our game. We understand our customers have different needs, so we offer employers and members a variety of competitively priced health plan options designed to fit their lifestyle. Plus, AvMed covers a range of preventive care services to encourage good health and wellness. Get to know us.

AvMed Health Plans was created in 1969 as a prepaid health care system for pilots in Miami’s aviation industry. The name AvMed is derived from "aviation medicine." Today, AvMed Health Plans is the largest not-for-profit health plan company in Florida. AvMed became licensed as an HMO in 1973 and earned federal qualification in 1977.

• AvMed has been serving Floridians for more than 40 years.
• AvMed Health Plans employ more than 800 employees.
• AvMed has over 300,000 members around the state.
• In 2009, for the fifth consecutive year, AvMed Health Plans received the highest overall rating of any Statewide Florida plan that submitted data to NCQA in the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems survey (CAHPS).
• In 2008, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), the nation’s top health care quality evaluator, accredited AvMed’s Commercial and Medicare products as “Excellent,” a distinction shared only by a select group of health plans in the country.
• TheStreet.com Ratings awarded us top honors (A) for our “Excellent” financial strength, placing us in the top nine percent of all health plans in the United States.
• AM Best, a worldwide insurance-rating and information agency with more than 100 years of history, gave us a rating of B++, or Good, reflecting three years of strong operating performance after restructuring its commercial account business, membership growth and a good capital position.

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