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Evaluating Managed Care Plans Consumer information and recommendations to help you compare HMO's for quality. Offered by the National Committe for Qualify Assurance, currently the nation's only recognized accrediting agency for HMO's. Promoting Managed Care Advocate Health Care of Oak Brook, IL, highlights the advantages of managed care. You may find useful information for making up your own mind about an HMO or PPO, but remember that this site ignores some of the problems with managed care. Highlights state legislative actions that have been instituted to stop abuses under managed care programs.