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.

AAHAM is the premier association for patient accounting and administrative management professionals. AAHAM offers certification, education, networking and government relations to over 2500 members and 38 chapters. AAHAM is renowned for its certification programs; the Certified Patient Account Manager (CPAM), The Certified Clinic Account Manager (CCAM), The Certified Patient Account Technician (CPAT) and The Certified Clinic Account Technician (CCAT). Visit our website at www.aaham.org or call 703/281-4043 for additional information.

BearingPoint is a leading management and technology consulting company serving the Forbes Global 100 and many of the world's largest public services organizations in more than 60 countries. Our more than 16,000 passionate, experienced consultants help organizations around the world solve their most pressing challenges, day in and day out. Through our collaborative and flexible approach, we help our clients get practical, sustainable, measurable results, make the right strategic decisions and implement the right solutions. To learn more, contact us at 1 866 BRNGPNT (+1 508 216 2523 from outside the United States and Canada), or visit our Web site at www.bearingpoint.com.

American Health & Drug Benefits™ examines drug and other healthcare intervention value from the separate and unified vantage points of each stakeholder group to the process: payors, purchasers, providers, patients, manufacturers, regulators, distributors, and evaluators. Directly or indirectly, all parties to healthcare benefits influence policy and demand satisfaction of their interests. www.ahdbonline.com

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.

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

HealthEconomics.Com is the premier website for health economics and outcomes research resources as well as jobs on the Internet. Continuously updated by experienced health economists, HealthEconomics.Com is organized by user-friendly categories such as Associations, Consulting Companies, Conferences, Databases, Education, Employment, Government, Humor, Journals, Libraries, News, Pharma/Biotech companies, Pharmacy, and Questionnaires/Performance Assessment. This easy-to-navigate web site is searchable by key word and provides visitors the ability to recommend new sites of potential interest. Scientific forums provide an opportunity for idea exchange. The Employment Center is the place to find a new employee or look for a new position in the field. Visit www.healtheconomics.com soon.

Hospitalmanagement.net, in conjunction with its sister publications Medical Imaging Technology and Practical Patient Care, enables easy and thorough communication between buyers and sellers through multiple, fully optimised channels.

Our online service brings together a global community of industry professionals and a wealth of market knowledge based around extensive experience.

Medical Imaging Technology has been developed to satisfy the huge demand for information on medical imaging, a demand made not only by radiologists but also by cardiologists, physicians and senior healthcare managers.

Practical Patient Care is published specifically to provide medical practitioners and senior managers with the information they need to formulate and deliver successful wound management and infection control strategies, strategies that will allow them to achieve their objective of improving patient care at a reduced cost.

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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.

Medical News Today is updated with more than 150 articles on weekdays and over 40 articles at weekends - more than any other health news website. The website is divided into 117 medical categories/specialties, allowing you to browse only the news relevant to you. Advanced news archive searches allow you to quickly find the news you are interested in, from over 200,000 archived articles. www.medicalnewstoday.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 .

PM360 is the premier, must-read monthly magazine for marketing decision makers in the pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device industries. PM360 is the only journal that delivers the full spectrum of practical information necessary for product managers and pharma-marketing professionals to succeed in the complex and highly regulated healthcare environment. The journal's targeted and insightful editorial focuses on issues that directly impact critical decision making, including: planning and implementation of cutting edge strategies, trends, the latest technological advances, branding/marketing, advertising/promotion, patient/professional education, sales, market research, PR, and leadership. For more information, please visit: www.pm360online.com

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