Health Plan Week, formerly Managed Care Week, provides business, financial and regulatory news of the health insurance industry. Each week, this newsletter covers new benefit designs and underwriting practices, new products and marketing strategies, mergers and alliances and more. Annual subscriptions include access to free quarterly data - Key Financial Indicators for Leading Health Plans.

The Next Generation of Disease Management: 2009 and Beyond is a new book from AIS that provides directional insight on: planning for successful DM implementation, deciding whether to build or buy programs, integrating care coordination, targeting specific groups, and many more hot button topics. Visit www.aishealth.com/Products/bdmEBWC2.html to learn more.

The Center for Health Value Innovation has grown into the nation's premier organization dedicated to sharing the evidence of improved health and economic outcomes through value-based designs. www.vbhealth.org

Drug Benefit Trends, published by Cliggott Publishing Group, a division of CMP Medica, is a monthly journal that reaches more than 28,000 drug benefit decision makers, primarily medical directors and pharmacy directors of managed care organizations, who control or direct the pharmacy service, administer the drug benefit, and have an impact on formulary decisions. The circulation also includes major employers and PBMs.

Drug Benefit Trends presents research findings and other information and analyses to guide readers in making best possible decisions affecting patient health using the tools of managed care. Articles are peer-reviewed for accuracy, objectivity, and sound methodology. Regular features include “Trend of the Month,” a graphic and descriptive analysis of a major trend affecting the drug benefit, and regular columns authored by well regarded managed care experts on drug benefit management, specialty pharmacy, and behavioral health issues.

Drug Benefit Trends also publishes a variety of issue-oriented single-sponsored supplements and multi-sponsored supplements focusing on specific disease categories.

Eli Research is a research and information company with more than 120 print and on-line publications, teleconferences and audio learning products for our core markets of healthcare, law and litigation, financial services, education, travel, human services, sales and customer service, technology and the internet. www.elihealthcare.com/hc_publications.htm

The Executive Report on Managed Care provides twice-monthly news and information on issues affecting the managed care industry, legislation and regulations, real-life examples of how managed care organizations are benefiting from innovative programs and cost saving initiatives.

The Managed Care Information Center (MCIC) gathers, compiles, analyzes, studies and distributes business information on the managed care industry. The MCIC delivers this strategic business information to its clients via executive newsletters, yearbooks, leading industry databases and directories, management reports, and client research studies. The information is available in print, on CD-ROM and via the Internet at www.themcic.com.

Pacific Business Group on Health is one of the nation's top business coalitions focused on health care. Our 50 large purchaser members spend billions of dollars annually to provide health care coverage to more than 3 million employees, retirees and dependents. PBGH is a respected voice in the state and national dialogue on how to improve the quality and effectiveness of health care while moderating costs. Partnering with the state's leading health plans, provider organizations, consumer groups and other stakeholders, PBGH works on many fronts to promote value-based purchasing in health care. www.pbgh.org

PharmaVOICE is the executive forum that allows business leaders to engage in a candid dialogue on the myriad challenges and trends impacting the life-sciences industry. PharmaVOICE reaches more than 17,000 U.S.-based executives who influence business strategies and affect change. Published monthly, PharmaVOICE provides readers with insightful and thought-provoking commentary in a multiple-perspective format through its forums, topics, and articles that cover a range of issues from molecule through market. To Raise Your VOICE, contact [email protected].

The Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy (SHCA) is a not-for-profit healthcare organization dedicated to individuals interested in advocacy as well as patient representatives, guest relations professionals, physicians, nurses, social workers and others currently employed in hospitals, health maintenance organizations, home health agencies, long-term care facilities and other health-related organizations.

As a dynamic and growing organization, the SHCA provides a voice for advocacy for patient's rights, ethics, patient satisfaction/measurement, and customer service in today's healthcare facilities and hospitals. We are the heart of the hospitals, advocating in the name of the patient. www.shca-aha.org

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