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Format: 8 pages, print and e-mail
Frequency: weekly
ISSN: 1937-6650
Pub Code: MCW

Health Plan Week on CD.

If current trends continue, health plans will see their profitability attacked from all sides in 2008. Flat enrollment growth may spell trouble unless you respond with new benefit designs, provider panels and price points. Major mergers and acquisitions are going to demand accurate competitive intelligence. State and federal health reform proposals will create new growth opportunities — but also bring complex new regulations. Plus, there are major developments with generics, behind-the-counter drugs and specialty pharmacy, genetic testing, and a slew of trends you need to monitor closely.

This brave new world for insurers requires creative, fast-moving management with ready access to reliable news and data. Thousands of your peers stay prepared to meet these challenges with a subscription to Health Plan Week, packed with insightful information on how you can:

Retain and grow group enrollment, even as large companies tighten benefit eligibility rules, cut human resources departments and trim their work forces ... and more small firms cut benefits altogether.
Stake out — and keep — a foothold in the individual market, the only market segment likely to grow in 2008. Get tactics to set your products apart.
Keep your provider panels competitive. Marshal tested solutions from quality-incentive and tiered network programs to targeted leases and affiliations.
Participate in successful coverage-expansion initiatives launched by state and local governments. Discover how to avoid programs that under-reimburse plans or create costly compliance problems.
Track pending mergers and acquisitions like CIGNA’s forthcoming deal to buy Great-West Healthcare and United’s agreement to purchase Sierra ... and get intelligence on how these deals are likely to impact your bottom line.
Keep ahead of upcoming changes to Medicare Advantage and Part D ... and monitor how other plans are repositioning themselves to protect against a variety of possible assaults from Congress.

Since 1991, Health Plan Week (formerly Managed Care Week) has provided a major competitive edge for managers in hospitals and health systems, health insurance companies, medical groups, employers, pharmaceutical companies and those who sell products or services to the health care industry. Get the inside news, targeted data and expert analysis that will help improve your organization's bottom line. Order your No-Risk Subscription today!

Health Plan Week on CD is an easy-to-use CD with all issues of the newsletter published from January 2005 to June 2008. It contains hundreds of pages of industry-leading coverage of the health plan industry — in a user-friendly searchable format (PDF).

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Health Plan Week is written by a highly experienced team of health business journalists that includes Managing Editor Steve Davis and Executive Editor James Gutman. Their extensive experience ensures that each issue is packed with information of critical importance to your organization’s bottom line and includes “how-to” strategic information you can put to use immediately.

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