The American Medical Group Association (AMGA) represents multispecialty medical groups and other organized systems of care, including some of the nation's largest, most prestigious integrated healthcare delivery systems. The members of AMGA deliver health care to 80 million patients in 43 states, including 15 million capitated lives. Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, AMGA is the strategic partner for medical groups providing a comprehensive package of benefits, including political advocacy, educational and networking programs, publications, benchmarking data services, and financial and operations assistance. Please visit www.amga.org for more information.

This 12-page monthly newsletter provides all the practical tips, tools, vital information, and news you need to create a culture of patient safety and survey-readiness throughout your entire organization. Each and every issue is packed with real success stories of hospitals that have integrated patient safety initiatives, reduced medical errors, and worked to educate both staff and patients on the importance of patient safety. In addition, Briefings on Patient Safety also includes a monthly "Staff Trainer Page" which features a puzzle, poster, game, or ready-to-use tool to help train your staff on key patient safety topics. For more information go to www.hcmarketplace.com or to request a free sample call 800/650-6787.

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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.

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HCCA exists to champion ethical practice and compliance standards and to provide the necessary resources for ethics and compliance professionals and others who share these principles. HCCA's major functions: 1. To promote quality compliance programs in health care - their introduction, development, and maintenance. 2. To provide a forum for interaction and information exchange to enable our members to provide high quality compliance programs. 3. To create high quality educational opportunities for those involved with compliance in the health care industry. Visit www.hcca-info.org or call 888-580-8373 for more information.

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This 12-page monthly newsletter offers the latest and greatest in hospitalist management strategies and techniques. You'll learn directly from other successful hospitalist programs what works and what doesn't. You'll also receive tips and information on the topics that matter most to your professional success. 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.

Managed Care Report is a hard-hitting package that will set you on the course to a more profitable future in managed care for less than a third of the cost of competing publications. Health plans, health care providers, policy makers, consultants, and attorneys turn to our editorial team for insight and analysis in the fast-changing world of managed care. Each issue of Managed Care Report is filled with must read information on federal and state regulatory updates, cutting edge business strategies, legal-roundups of managed care legislation, and earnings reports as well as analysis of the managed care market.

The Massachusetts Medical Society (MMS) is the statewide professional association for more than 23,000 physicians and medical students. It is dedicated to educating and advocating for the patients and physicians of Massachusetts. The MMS publishes the New England Journal of Medicine, and produces Journal Watch alerts and newsletters covering 13 specialty areas. The MMS is also a leader in continuing medical education for health care professionals throughout Massachusetts, and throughout the nation through its robust online and homestudy CME activities.

The Massachusetts Medical Society was established as a professional association of physicians by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in an Act of Incorporation, Chapter 15 of the Acts of 1781. Located in Waltham and Boston, Massachusetts, the MMS is the oldest continuously operating state medical society in the United States. For more information on the MMS, its mission and services, go to: www.massmed.org.

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.

Pay for Performance Reporter is a monthly management briefing covering the news and key developments in P4P. It will provide you with answers to questions you may have, with facts, news, insight and emerging P4P developments. Discover how early adopters achieved physician "buy in," the importance of leverage, how to choose your performance incentive measures wisely and choose measures that are defensible, and why provider feedback is so important. Every month you'll receive an objective, balanced report with current news and findings surrounding P4P.

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This 12-page newsletter helps your hospital improve quality measures and receive the Medicare reimbursement it deserves. Every monthly issue offers advice on data collection, abstraction, and analysis; case studies on hospitals participating in pay-for-performance programs; and expert tips on JCAHO survey preparation. For more information visit www.hcmarketplace.com or call 800/650-6787.

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