11th Annual World Health Care Congress
Supporting Organizations and Publications
Official Publication
American Health & Drug Benefits—The Peer-Reviewed Forum for Real-World Evidence in Benefit Design
The journal informs payers, purchasers, policy-makers and other stakeholders on the triad of clinical, business and regulatory practices driving formulary and benefit design competency in a value-based healthcare system.
www.AHDBonline.com
Health Plan Week (aishealth.com/marketplace/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 - as well as a subscriber-only Web page with searchable archives of past issues, recent stories of interest grouped for convenient reading, and regular postings from your editor.
Get inside news and tactics to help you succeed in the consumer-directed health plan and HSA markets from Inside Consumer-Directed Care. Every other week, receive strategic analysis on: plan design innovations, contract terms between vendors and employers, market strategies, and financial results. Visit www.aishealth.com/Products/NewsICD.html for your free issue.
Medicare Advantage News (aishealth.com/marketplace/medicare-advantage-news) provides analysis of changes to and company activity in the Medicare Advantage and managed Medicaid programs, plus intelligence on strategies to retain enrollees and reduce costs. This biweekly newsletter covers enrollment trends and market expansions; bids, proposals and contract details; mergers, acquisitions and business deals; oversight issues and legislative mandates; marketing strategies and more.
AIS's REPORT ON MEDICARE COMPLIANCE, the industry's leading source of weekly news and analysis on what you can do about billing problems, cost report errors, bad documentation, DRG upcoding, and other complex compliance issues…from the desk of veteran compliance reporter Nina Youngstrom. 45 issues annually. Call AIS, 800-521-4323, or visit the web site at www.AISHealth.com.
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!
Corporate Research Group/ CRG Research, Inc. (CRG) has been serving the managed healthcare marketplace since 1993 as the industry's leading source for news, strategic intelligence, market research and custom consulting. We know the market inside and out - the segments, the players and the competitive landscape. CRG products and services include daily email updates, weekly electronic newsletters, annual forecasts and reports, industry conferences, webinars, site license memberships and custom consulting solutions.
Cutting Edge Information is a business intelligence firm providing primary and secondary research reports on a wide range of business subjects. The company was founded by consultants with extensive experience conducting research studies for high-level clients and reselling the consulting results as reports. Our aim is to use this experience to eliminate hurdles in traditional consulting and focus on producing high-quality, real-company information for you. www.cuttingedgeinfo.com
The Health Care M&A; Information News is a comprehensive data source that is 100% devoted to health care mergers and acquisitions for the serious analyst and investor. Week-in and week-out, this service alerts you to developments in every key segment of the health care service and technology sectors, including behavioral health care, biotechnology, e-health, home health care, hospitals, laboratories, long-term care, managed care, medical devices, pharmaceuticals, physician medical groups, rehabilitation and more. You won't find more comprehensive information anywhere else.
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The Greater Philadelphia Business Coalition on Health (GPBCH) represents the employer community in working with health plans, health care providers, and other system stakeholders to improve the value of health benefit spending for its members, by improving healthcare quality and safety and reducing health care costs. The Coalition is committed to maintaining and improving the health and productivity of the region's workforce, and to ensuring that when health care is needed it is accessible, affordable, high-quality, and safe.
The Brazilian Medical Devices Manufacturers Association (ABIMO) was founded in 1962 in order to organize and regulate the sector of medical devices. Nowadays has 340 members, that represent 66% of all companies and 80% of the sales revenue on medical sector.
ABIMO's mission is to represent and promote the sustainable growth of the Brazilian medical devices industry in the domestic and international market.
AmeeraHealth provides a forum predominantly for UK health-care companies doing business in the Middle East. The company also acts as an Agent for certain medical products, and works with a group of distributors, mainly in Saudi Arabia and the U.A.E.
American Institute for Preventive Medicine (AIPM) is an award-winning developer and provider of wellness programs and publications. It is one of the first five companies to receive URAC Accreditation for Comprehensive Wellness. AIPM 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.
26,000 Employee Benefits Professionals rely on us to keep them up to date - do you?
Since 1995, the BenefitsLink daily e-newsletters have provided employee benefits professionals with the latest developments and analysis in plan compliance, administration, policy and design - we scour the web to deliver the very best articles to keep you on top of this ever-changing field. Our website includes active message boards, industry news and an extensive calendar of conferences and webcasts. Our sister site, EmployeeBenefitsJobs.com, offers the best-informed benefits professionals to find - and fill -- job openings in this niche field.
Established in 1990, the Case Management Society of America is an international non-profit 501(c)(6) multi-disciplinary professional association dedicated to the support and advancement of the case management profession through educational forums, networking opportunities, legislative advocacy, and establishing standards to advance the profession. It is based in Little Rock, Ark. and serves more than 20,000 members/subscribers and over 70 affiliate and pending chapters. Since its inception, CMSA has been at the forefront of setting professional standards for the industry, which allows for the highest level of efficiency and integrity, as well as developing national and local leaders who are recognized for their practice and professional excellence. For more information, visit www.cmsa.org and follow us on Twitter @CMSANational.
For information about our upcoming conference, please visit http://cmsa.org/conference.
Employers Health is a national coalition of employers working together to improve the cost, quality and accessibility of high-value healthcare services through value-based group purchasing, data analysis and benefits-design consultation, educational programming, community quality initiatives and legislative monitoring and advocacy. The organization is comprised of more than 300 member organizations and three million lives. For more information see www.ehpco.com.
Employers' Health Coalition, created by employers for employers, advocates value and innovation in healthcare by way of these key actions:
- Representing Employers in Negotiations for the Highest Quality Healthcare at the Lowest Possible Cost;
- Promoting Transparency in Healthcare Costs and Quality;
- Providing Educational Opportunities Across all Levels of Coalition Membership;
- Providing a Vehicle for Employers to Exchange Ideas & Information about Healthcare.
HIT Consultant is a healthcare technology focused digital media outlet providing engaging interviews, videos, and in-depth commentary shaping the landscape of the health technology industry.
InsideHealthPolicy.com is a subscription-fee-based daily online/newsletter service from Inside Washington Publishers, a company with nearly three decades of experience publishing inside news from Washington, DC. InsideHealthPolicy.com is constantly updated with news from the staff of our newsletters - Health Exchange Alert, Inside CMS, FDA Week - and our Inside Health Reform news service - plus daily blogs and hand-picked documents, placed in a fully searchable document/news archive. It also offers special news sections on health reform, Congress, Medicare, drug policy, and food safety. Another feature is our Morning Headlines e-mail alert - sent to you early each business morning with the latest from the site to keep you on top of critical news as you begin your day. Please visit http://insidehealthpolicy.com to set up your one-month, no-obligation, free trial and see for yourself why health policy professionals rely on InsideHealthPolicy.com.
The Leapfrog Group is a national nonprofit organization using the collective leverage of large purchasers of healthcare to initiate breakthrough improvements in the safety, quality and affordability of healthcare. The flagship Leapfrog Hospital Survey allows purchasers to structure their contracts and purchasing to reward the highest performing hospitals. The Leapfrog Group also issues the Hospital Safety Score, a letter grade rating of how well hospitals protect patients from accidents, harm, and error. The Leapfrog Group was founded in November 2000 with support from the Business Roundtable and national funders and is now independently operated with support from its purchaser and other members.
Managed Care delivers high-interest articles and features developed through original research and writing. Its editorial mission is to advise managed markets physicians, pharmacists, and executives on the integration of the business and medical aspects of the rapidly changing managed care market. A strict fact-checking and peer-review process assures the accuracy and relevance of editorial content.
Created in 2009 as a response to the need for a convenient way to network and exchange information in the physician advisor community, NAPA is the only national association dedicated to the role of the Physician Advisor. NAPA has since expanded to over 500 members; serving as a central hub for discussions, opportunities, and networking for this growing role.
The National Association of Physician Advisors (NAPA) is dedicated to creating a forum for physician advisors, case managers, VPMAs, medical directors and other hospital professionals in the departments of utilization and compliance for:
- Networking: Connect through social networking sites and national conferences with your peers, superiors and consultants.
- Knowledge Transfer: Share strategies, best practices and lessons learned through national events, online discussion forums and publications.
- Industry Development: Begin the process of developing the Physician Advisor' s role as a true specialty area in healthcare.
Parks Associates is an internationally recognized market research and consulting company specializing in emerging consumer technology products and services. The company's expertise includes digital media and platforms, entertainment and gaming, home networks, Internet and television services, digital health, mobile applications and services, support services, consumer apps, advanced advertising, consumer electronics, energy management, and home control systems and security. www.parksassociates.com
Pharma and Healthcare Insight provides subscribers with analysis, forecasts and company profiles on a country-by-country basis, covering the key trends impacting on global pharma and healthcare markets. The service includes online access to the very latest analysis and data, a searchable archive, and PDF access to the monthly regional Insight reports.
Published by Business Monitor International, the global market specialists, Pharma and Healthcare Insight is broken down into five regional services: Asia, Western Europe, Emerging Europe, the Middle East & Africa and the Americas. For further information please view our website:
http://www.pharmaceuticalsinsight.com/ or call Tel: +44 (0) 20 7246 1403.
Spirit of Women® is a national network of hospitals dedicated to advancing the cause and business of women's health. The Spirit of Women business strategy packages and promotes women's health across all hospital service lines resulting in increased volumes and market share, successful new patient acquisition, enhanced physician relationships, amplified media attention, and improved community health status. Spirit of Women offers turnkey educational, outreach and business development tools including targeted clinical programs, signature events, publications and year-round digital and print communication strategies to hospitals seeking market leadership in women's services. www.spiritofwomen.org
The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is the leading authority on the use of Health IT to improve healthcare information exchange in order to enhance the quality of care, improve efficiency and reduce costs of the U.S. healthcare system. WEDI was formed in 1991 by the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and was designated in the 1996 HIPAA legislation as an advisor to HHS. WEDI's membership includes a broad coalition of organizations, including: hospitals, providers, health plans, vendors, government agencies, consumers, not-for-profit organizations and standards bodies.
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Cracking Health Costs reveals the best ways for companies and small businesses to fight back, right now, against rising health care costs. This book proposes multiple, practical steps that you can take to control costs and increase the effectiveness of the health benefit.
The book is all about rolling back health care costs to save companies and employees money. Working hand-in-hand with their employees, businesses need to ensure that, whenever feasible, employees with the most expensive diagnoses get optimal treatment at hospitals not practicing "volume-driven" medicine for higher profits. Less than 10% of employees incur 80% of costs. About 20% of patients have been completely misdiagnosed, while many others are simply the victims of surgeons who are either practicing bad medicine or overtreating for profit.
For example, some companies, such as Walmart and Lowe's, are turning to the "Centers of Excellence" approach author Tom Emerick helped to pioneer while running benefits for Walmart. By determining which hospitals are adopting the highest standards of care, benefits managers can reduce the number of unnecessary high-cost surgeries and improve employees' overall health. The solution-based approach offered by the book is unique, because it can be implemented by businesses today.
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