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We’re the Highest Rated Medicare Advantage Plan in Arizona for 2012!
Cigna Medical Group is the group medical practice for Cigna HealthCare of Arizona's Medicare Advantage Plan, a 2012 4.5 - star rated plan. To learn more about why star rating is so important in a Medicare plan, please click here


Health Care Leadership Awards (HCLA)
Winner of the Health Care Leadership Award from AZ Business Magazine for the Home-Based Care Program, in the Institutional or Educational Program category. Our Home-Based Care Program was created in 2004 specifically to help patients who were not returning to their doctor after a hospital visit. This was an important gap that needed to be filled and our Population Health Management team has been providing the Home-Based Care Program ever since.

The program has a team of physicians, PAs, NPs, LPNs and social workers who visit patients in their homes to provide medical care. They monitor vital signs, provide treatment, review patient prescriptions, help them take medications, evaluate nutritional needs and more. And all activity is recorded in the Electronic Health Record, available to the primary care physician. Since the program started, there has been a 30 percent decrease in acute hospital admissions.


Finalist in Arizona Business Magazine's "2010 HealthCare Leadership Award" for Cigna Medical Group's Chronic Health Improvement Program.


Winner of Arizona Business Magazine's "2008 HealthCare Leadership Award" for Cigna Medical Group's Diabetes Self-Management program

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National Committee for Quality Assurance Awards (NCQA)
Highest level of recognition from the NCQA for meeting national quality standards for Physician Practice Connections (PPC) - Patient Centered Medical HomeTM. Cigna Medical Group is the first multi-specialty group medical practice in Arizona to receive this recognition and it applies to all of our Cigna Medical Group health care centers in the Phoenix metro area.
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Honorees of the Diabetic Physician Recognition program by the NCQA and the American Diabetes Association. These physicians meet specific standards of care associated with high-quality outcomes among diabetics.

Deborah Baldemor MD
Angeli Del Mundo MD
Saquib Hamid MD
Sudha Kamineni MD
Edward Kay MD
Erlinda Rodriquez MD

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Honorees of the Heart/Stroke Recognition Program, NCQA and the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association to recognize physicians who have met the highest standards of quality in the area of heart and stroke care.

Hala Abubakr MD
Laura Adler MD
Khaled Albasha MD (Cardiologist)
Rebecca Allison, MD
Richard Alm, MD
Zeenat Ara MD
Alicia Baker DO
Deborah Baldemor MD
Samuel Balk, MD
Haim Bartall MD
Stan Bennett, MD
Stuart Biliack MD (Cardiologist)
Angeli Del Mundo, MD
Susan Hallman, MD
Ellen Hand, MD
Landon Hoecker, MD
Brad Lawrence MD
Paul Ingraham, MD
Sudha Kamineni MD
Edward Kay MD
Shel-Don Legarreta MD
William Lawless, MD
Cynthia Lowe, MD
Thomas Lyon MD
Samuel Magazu MD
Sujit Magiyawala MD
Dean Martin, MD
Rohit Patel MD (Cardiologist)
Brian Drew Peterson, MD
Douglas Ray MD
Amjad Riaz, MD
Erlinda Rodriquez MD
Parwin Sadaat MD
Steven Sardo MD
Diane Shuck MD
George Sibley MD
Donald Spelhaug, MD
Shelia Sudhakar, MD
Marichu Sy MD
George Ting, MD
Terry Turner MD

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Centers- NCQA Heart Stroke Recognition Program
CJ Harris
Clyde Wright
Gilbert, North Valley
Paradise Valley
Paseo
South Mountain
Sun City
Superstition Springs
Westridge

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Other
Winner of South Mountain Chamber of Commerce’s "2010 Spirit of South Mountain" award.


Cigna Medical Group's Pediatrics team is a 7-time recipient (multiple years) of the "Daniel T. Cloud Outstanding Practice Award," which is given to pediatric departments that achieve immunization coverage for at least 90% of all 2-year-old patients.

Chandler Medical Office
Deer Valley Medical Office
Paradise Valley Multi-Specialty Center
Scottsdale Medical Office
South Mountain Medical Office
Stapley Multi-Specialty Center
Tempe Medical Office


Recipient of the 2005 "CIGNA President's Award" and recipient of the 2005 "Big Shots Award" from The Arizona Partnership for Immunization for responding to the 2004 flu vaccination shortage and assisting 42,500 high-risk individuals.


Recipient of a "Certificate of Achievement" from the American Academy of Pediatrics and The Arizona Partnership for Immunizations for championing community vaccination improvement efforts.
Dr. Houfek, Medical Director for Primary Care


Recipient of the "Dreaming to Reach Excellent Anticoagulation Management Award" from Roche Diagnostics for excellence in the care and management of patients taking the blood-thinning medication, warfarin (Coumadin).


One of 2007's "Top 25 Workplaces for Women" by Arizona Woman magazine


Six "Top Docs," by Phoenix Magazine, 2008, selected by their peers as the best in the field.

Dr. Rebecca Allison, Cardiologist (Clyde Wright)
Dr. Sanford Fineman, Neurology (Clyde Wright and North Valley)
Dr. Paul Ingraham, Internal Medicine (Scottsdale)
Dr. John Parente, Family Medicine (Clyde Wright)
Dr. Alan Mallace, Rheumatologist (Clyde Wright and Sun City)
Dr. Dean Martin, Family Medicine (Clyde Wright)

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