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.

An award-winning developer and provider of wellness programs and publications, American Institute for Preventive Medicine is one of the first five companies to receive URAC Accreditation for Comprehensive Wellness. It works with over 13,000 corporations, hospitals, MCOs, unions, schools and government agencies to reduce health care costs and absenteeism. Visit www.healthylife.com for more information.

Behavioral Health Central is the most comprehensive, independent daily news site geared to all tiers within the medical community — behavioral health clinicians, business leaders, case managers, payors, primary care providers, employers, caregivers and patients. Our multi-media news portal is second-to-none when it comes to daily behavioral health news content covering research, legislative updates, industry trends, advocacy, technology, dual diagnosis, clinical news, pharmacotherapy, events and so much more. We are pleased to be a media partner with the World Congress. If your organization has evidence-based news or case studies — and the experts that make the news — then we invite you to submit copy for publishing consideration. And, we invite and encourage you to sign up for a free subscription to the Daily Update industry news eletter. Simply send your email address to [email protected]. Or, go to www.behavioralhealthcentral.com and look for the Daily Update sign up tool.

Launched in 2003, Benefits Selling is the authority for brokers and agents selling core, voluntary and retirement products. Our goal is to provide the most practical sale-focused information for benefits brokers and agents to boost their business, act as an invaluable resource for their clients and help shape the entire marketplace.

We strive to be the leading resource for brokers, agents and consultants in the benefits market by delivering exclusive real world sale tactics, news and information through our magazine and bring brokers together with other market players at Benefits Selling Expo. www.benefitssellingmag.com

BenefitsLink.com -- on the web since 1995 -- supplies employee benefits plan practitioners and sponsors with comprehensive news and information about plan compliance, administration, policy and design. Email newsletters with the latest developments are sent to 25,000 subscibers every day. Also online are an industry webcast calendar and message boards for practitioners to exchange questions and answers. Our affiliated site is EmployeeBenefitsJobs.com -- named one of the 100 best job boards on the web -- where employers reach our niche audience of potential job candidates on the web and via prominent links in our daily newsletters.BenefitsLink.com

The Only Business Magazine Serving Consumer-Directed Health Care: CDHC Solutions magazine, enewsletter, and www.cdhcsolutionsmag.com cover consumer-directed health care innovation and solutions for more than 46,000 employers, TPAs, benefit brokers and health plans. CDHC Solutions is the first and only magazine exclusively focusing on the changing landscape of health care benefits. CDHCS advertisers benefit from the focus on employers, brokers, TPAs, health plans and the compatibility of the editorial environment for their advertising.

The Consumer-Driven Health Care Institute (CDHCI) is a not-for-profit organization representing the leaders in consumer-driven health care. CDHCI's goal is to be the prime source for education, research and information about consumer-driven health care. The Institute actively promotes the shift to the Consumer-Driven Health paradigm. The Member Companies have created health care models and technologies that empower individuals to make informed health care choices.

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

EmployeeBenefitsJobs is the top "niche" job site for employee benefits professionals. Named one of the 50 best recruiting sites on the entire Internet, for five years in a row! Employers and recruiters find qualified benefits personnel fast. EmployeeBenefitsJobs.com.

Employers Health is a national Coalition of employers working together to improve the cost, quality and accessibility of high-value health care services.

Introducing www.Employersweb.com , the industry's only web portal and companion magazine dedicated to providing real health care, benefits, compensation, work-life, recognition, and career development solutions.

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.

Healthcare Finance News is the industry’s business newspaper, offering healthcare financial managers comprehensive coverage of today’s unprecedented financial challenges faced by healthcare providers and payers. Reaching more financial management than any other healthcare publication, Healthcare Finance News reaches more than 32,000 subscribers, including CFOs, VPs Finance, CEOs and other financial management at hospitals, multi-hospital systems, medical/surgical clinics and group practices, ambulatory care facilities, nursing homes, extended care facilities, as well as healthcare payers. HealthcareFinanceNews.com

Published in partnership with HIMSS, Healthcare IT News reports on events that affect those working in the healthcare information technology industry. Our more than 50,000 readers include IT professionals employed in physician practices, hospitals, integrated delivery networks and payer organizations, as well as members of the C-suite in those entities. Ranked #1 by hospital CIOs two years in a row (PERQ/HCI study 2005, 2006), Healthcare IT News offers timely, relevant news on new technologies; on IT strategies and tactics; on statutory and regulatory issues decided in Washington, D.C. (as well as state policies); and on news about their colleagues and competitors. www.healthcareitnews.com

Healthcare Trends Quarterly magazine evaluates emerging technologies while examining their impact on the industry. HTQ features exclusive articles with key industry leaders, bringing in newsworthy trends coupled with the technologies that will shape them. HTQ is essential reading for those who are at the forefront of purchasing decisions in healthcare. www.htquarterly.com

Human Resource Management International Digest is an essential information resource for today's human resource managers. As a unique service, we scan through the best 400 management journals in the world and distil the most topical human resource management issues and relevant implications for HR personnel out of the cutting-edge research. We regularly present case studies of the implementation of human resource strategies in organizations of varying sizes, ranging from SMEs to multinational corporations along with interviews with leading thinkers in the field.

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.

The Midwest Business Group on Health (MBGH) is one of the nation's leading coalitions of private and public employers. MBGH's 85+ members provide coverage for over 2 million lives, spending more than $2.3 billion on health care benefits on an annual basis. MBGH offers employers a variety of health benefit educational seminars, networking opportunities, quality and community initiatives, demonstration projects and group purchasing programs. Through these programs, MBGH helps employers and their employees obtain more value from their health care benefit dollars and improve the health status of the community. For more information, contact Cheryl Larson at 312-372-9090 or [email protected] and visit our website at www.mbgh.org www.mbgh.org .

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 Virginia Business Coalition on Health (VBCH) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3), catalyst-coalition founded in 1983 under the name of the Hampton Roads Health Coalition and expanded Virginia-wide in 2006. VBCH is a member of the National Business Coalition on Health, the National Quality Forum, The Leapfrog Group and others. VBCH unites employers through adoption of value-based benefits-design to improve worksite wellness to include disease management, health plan quality, and hospital patient safety and quality. Programs include the Wellness in the Workplace Awards, eValue8 Health Plan RFI Evaluation, the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention ToolKit for Employers, HealthMapRx™ Diabetes Coaching, Diabetes Resources Directory, education such as their annual Health Summit and regular business roundtables, and communications to promote best practices. VBCH is a mixed-model member coalition of stakeholder purchasers (employers) and providers, representing 300,000 employees and their dependents. For more information about VBCH, visit www.myVBCH.org or phone 757.552.0913.

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