Employers give health plans a ‘C’ letter grade

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Top Story Leapfrog: Employers Give Health Plans a 'C' Letter Grade A survey from The Leapfrog Group asked employers to give their health plans an "A" through "F" letter grade. From those letter grades, Leapfrog calculated the health plans' average Grade Point Average (GPA) on a 4.0 scale. Health plans received a 2.29 GPA in 2022, a slight decrease from Leapfrog's prior survey in 2020, which had a 2.57 GPA.

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