Rely on Drug Benefit News, a biweekly newsletter from AIS, for timely news and data on the business of pharmaceuticals and receive: practical cost-management strategies, details of PBM arrangements, regulatory updates, prescribing trends in different drug categories, and expert coverage of issues and events that have a big impact on pharmacy benefits and drug costs. Visit www.aishealth.com/Products/NewsDBN.html to learn more today!

Specialty Pharmacy News is a monthly newsletter to help health plans, PBMs, providers, and employers manage costs more aggressively and deliver biotechs, injectables, and infusibles more effectively. Focusing on formulary strategies, benefit designs, and market analysis, SPN's business stories help you meet the complicated challenges of reducing costs while improving outcomes. Visit http://www.aishealth.com/Products/NewsSPN.html to learn more today!

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

Consumer Driven Healthcare is the monthly newsletter designed to help healthcare organizations respond effectively to the shift in market power, become consumer-centric, and position themselves to become market leaders in the new consumer-driven market. You'll find the key marketing, planning, business development, contracting, and operations strategies that will ensure long-term success in this rapidly evolving market. For more information go to www.hcmarketplace.com or to request a free sample call 800/650-6787.

Disease Management News is the twice-monthly newsletter that's devoted exclusively to competitive business intelligence on the entire disease management field. It provides instant, in-depth coverage of DM startups, shutdowns, acquisitions, partnerships, contracting, clinical and cost outcomes, new disease and geographic markets, technology, names/number of contacts. For more information go to www.hcmarketplace.com or to request a free sample call 800-650-6787

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.

For more than 50 years, health care leaders and executives have turned to Medicine & Health for insight and analysis on the world of health care policy. These are turbulent times for health policy, with budgets tight at the federal, state and local levels. Health insurance costs are rising, medical errors are in the spotlight, and an aging baby boom generation is destined to strain, and ultimately transform, the health care system in this country. As policymakers wrangle with these long-simmering crises, they must also confront bioterrorism response plans and the dangerously withering public health infrastructure.

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 Benfield Group is a Health Care Consulting firm that provides research, strategic planning and implementation support. Our clients include employers, insurers, pharmaceutical companies and other health management organizations. We have an experienced team of seasoned consultants and have been providing clients with research, strategy development and solution support since 1989.

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