Ongoing Care for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

Ongoing Care for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 2024-25 Edition

Why is it important to get ongoing treatment for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)?

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is the most common behavioral disorder in school-age children. Children with ADHD may have problems paying attention or concentrating, which can interfere with their ability to do well at school and at home. Medicine is a proven treatment that helps many children with ADHD.

How should doctors treat ADHD?

If your child has ADHD, medicine may be a part of the treatment plan. The doctor should provide regular follow up visits for your child for an extended time period to see how well the medicine is working. At these visits, the doctor will closely monitor the medicine’s side effects such as headaches, poor appetite, and trouble sleeping.

Talk with your doctor and health plan to find out about what other services are available. Many health plans offer additional support and resources for patients with ADHD. These additional services may be educational materials (online and in print), classes or support groups, or phone counseling.

What do the stars mean?

The scores show how well each health plan did at making sure children 6 to 12 years of age who were prescribed a medicine for ADHD remained on medicine for at least 210 days and had at least 2 additional follow-up visits during the 9 months after their first month on medicine and initial follow up visit. A higher score means more children got the right care at the right time.

The scores are based on information from at least 30 health plan member administrative records in 2023.

When comparing plans, small differences between scores are expected. The larger differences are important.		Ongoing Care for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
		(Worse) 0% (Better) 100%
Kaiser Permanente - Northern California - HMO	78%
Kaiser Permanente - Southern California - HMO	75%
Western Health Advantage - HMO	58%
UnitedHealthcare Insurance Co., Inc. - PPO	56%
Anthem Blue Cross - PPO	53%
Blue Shield of California - HMO	53%
Blue Shield of California/Blue Shield Life - PPO	51%
Aetna - PPO	49%
Aetna Health of California, Inc. - HMO	48%
Anthem Blue Cross - HMO	47%
CIGNA - HMO	47%
CIGNA - PPO	41%
Health Net of California, Inc. - HMO	41%
UnitedHealthcare of California - HMO	30%
Sharp Health Plan - HMO	27%
Health Net of California, Inc. - PPO		Too few patients in sample to report

Score for top health plans nationwide 60%			Score that ranks a health plan in the top 10% of all commercial health plans in the US.