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Managed Care Week

Source: Atlantic Information Services
To be successful in today's managed care market, you must understand how dynamic change can be turned into bottom-line opportunities for your organization
Atlantic Information Servicesssful in today's managed care market, you must understand how dynamic change can be turned into bottom-line opportunities for your organization. Tremendous changes are taking place right now:
New products are hitting the market, as employers and enrollees change what they want from their managed care plans.
New competitors with new strategies are entering your market, forcing you to change the way you do business.
The rising demand for comprehensive benefits (including costly new drugs) makes it harder to make a profit.
Mergers and acquisitions are creating powerhouse health plans and intensifying the competition in many local markets.
Patient protection laws alter the way you must operate. To remain profitable in this fast-moving climate, you need news of big-dollar changes in managed care early in their development…not when they're already strangling you. Managed Care Week is a quick and easy way to see what will be happening in managed care tomorrow. It's the one source you can rely on to:
  • Track the growth of new managed care products
  • Get market data to size up your new business opportunities
  • Learn about successful new disease management strategies
  • Stay on top of managed care mergers and acquisitions
  • Follow trends in provider payment innovations
  • Monitor next-generation employer purchasing strategies
  • Meet new quality-related data collection requirements
  • Update contracts with physicians, hospitals and other providers
  • Comply with tight appeals timeframes and other new patient protection requirements

With margins as thin as they are today, it's critical to ride the major trends in the industry. Managed Care Week will keep you out in front with news and data guaranteed to improve your bottom line.
(45 issues; $526 annually; also available via e-mail)

Timely news of HMOs, PPOs, POS plans, provider-sponsored
plans, and innovative managed care arrangements.

  • One quick read of just the news you need -- eight easy-to-read pages that keep you
    completely current.
  • An eyewitness to important actions in Congress; at HCFA, OPM, DOD and other federal agencies; and in the state capitals.
  • A "Provider Relations" feature that helps HMOs, hospitals and others implement successful strategies for physician compensation and incentives and other pressing concerns, while significantly strengthening physician partnerships.
  • A "Market Profile" feature with listings of managed care companies and their enrollees in a large metro area, and large employers in that area and which managed care products they buy.
  • An objective reporter of managed care news from all links in the health chain — HMOs, PPOs, POS plans, specialty vendors, employers, insurers, providers and IDSs.
  • Packed with reliable data that can help your strategic planning and bottom line.
  • Supplemented by regular columns on managed care law, HMO stock prices, specialty managed care products, and meetings and conferences.
  • 100% Guarantee: If you are not satisfied with the newsletter during the first 30 days, just cancel and receive a 100% refund. After your first four issues, you may cancel at any time in the year ahead and receive a full prompt refund for all unmailed issues.

Valuable Assistance for Managers of:

  • HMOs
  • PPOs
  • POS plans
  • Insurers
  • Benefit plans
  • Hospitals and health systems
  • Group practices
  • Other providers

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