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AIS's Health Reform Week

Business News and Strategies on the Impact of Reform on Insurers, Employers and Pharma

With health reform now moving into the final implementation stage, it is more important than ever to get reliable answers to questions that will soon transform your business and bottom line. Among them:

• How will the individual and group markets be altered by hundreds of billions of dollars in health plan fees, penalties on individuals and employers and taxes on “Cadillac” plans?
• How much will exchange plan premiums be driven up as a result of the new “essential health benefits” requirement that plans in the exchanges offer at least the same number of drugs in each therapeutic class as the benchmark plan chosen by the state?
• What do health plans need to do now to prepare for the “3R” risk-modification programs that start in 2014 to limit adverse selection in exchanges?
• What will happen on the remaining approvals for and implementation of the massive CMS-funded integrated care initiatives for Medicare-Medicaid dual eligibles?
• How will your bottom line be impacted by mandated underwriting changes such as guaranteed issue and the end of gender rating, benefit caps and pre-existing condition exclusions?

To be a winner under reform, you will need targeted information to formulate strategies that limit your risks and maximize your opportunities. AIS’s Health Reform Week will provide reliable answers to a slew of questions that will transform your business and your bottom line. It is designed to inform savvy business leaders in health care of what reform means to them ... and how to take advantage of new opportunities ahead.

As a subscriber to AIS’s Health Reform Week, you will receive:

• 24 issues of the hard-hitting print newsletter, delivered First Class by U.S. Mail and also electronically (optional),
• 48 weekly E-News Alerts, with timely news of important events from Washington, the states and industry,
• AIS's 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
• Informative e-Alerts whenever important news breaks, and
• Access to a subscriber-only Web page with:
• Searchable archives of past articles,
• Convenient library with PDFs of back issues
• Recent stories of interest and hot topic articles grouped for convenient reading, and
• Regular postings from your editor.

The health industry is about to undergo its greatest transformation since Medicare started in 1965. Whether you manage a health plan, hospital or other provider organization, pharma company or PBM, or employee benefits department, AIS’s Health Reform Week will help you understand the details of reform and maximize your return on the terrific opportunities ahead.