Health Plan Week

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Subscriptions include print and electronic issues

  • Frequency: weekly (45 issues/year)
  • Pages: 8
  • Format: Print and PDF versions
  • ISSN: 1937-6650
  • Pub Code: NHPW-11WEB

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Health Plan Week

The nation’s #1 source of timely, objective business, financial and regulatory news of the health insurance industry. Published since 1991, the 8-page weekly features valuable insights and strategies for health plan managers and others who must monitor the activities and performance of health insurers. Coverage includes new benefit designs and underwriting practices, new products and marketing strategies, mergers and alliances, financial performance and results, Medicare and Medicaid opportunities, disease management, and the flood of reform-driven regulatory initiatives including medical loss ratios, exchanges, ACOs and myriad benefit design changes that are mandated.

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Introductory Subscription Price for New Subscribers (45 issues)
$537.00
was $637.00
8 issues
$91.00

Timely Business, Financial and Regulatory News of the Health Insurance Industry

Health Plan Week is a weekly 8-page newsletter written for busy health care executives to provide the business, financial and regulatory news of the health insurance industry that can help you make the most of opportunities and protect your organization’s bottom line. Each issue is packed with news and insight that can help you keep one eye on reform-mandated benefit design changes and the other trained on your competitors as:

  • New products of all shapes and sizes continue to roll out in response to dynamically changing market conditions.
  • Different insurers are taking different paths to implementation of electronic health records … and to guaranteeing the security of patient information.
  • Innovative new pharmacy management strategies are being tested for copays, MTM, compliance/adherence, generic utilization, step therapy, mail order and more.
  • Near-term market conditions that could ignite an explosion of mergers and acquisitions unlike anything the insurance industry has seen before.
  • New business strategies continue to emerge to cope with medical loss ratio rules' impact.

Success depends on your ability to analyze current events and smartly adapt to them. Health Plan Week is a reliable source for timely guidance on how you can:

  • Retain and grow group enrollment
  • Stake out and maintain a foothold in the individual market
  • Participate in successful coverage-expansion initiatives launched by state and local governments
  • Track mergers, acquisitions and partnerships in the industry

Formerly known as Managed Care Week, Health Plan Week has been published by AIS since 1991. A one-year subscription includes:

  • 45 issues of Health Plan Week delivered First Class by U.S. Mail and electronically (optional)
  • Key Financial Indicators for Leading Health Plans – quarterly spreadsheets, included at no additional charge, containing financial data points for the U.S.’s 50 leading health plans. Sold separately for $141 per quarter
  • Informative, subscriber-only E-Alerts when timely news breaks
  • AIS’s 100% Satisfaction Guarantee
  • 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.

Free quarterly data included in your subscription! Subscribers to Health Plan Week also receive Key Financial Indicators for Leading Health Plans, a quarterly spreadsheet with up-to-date financial data points for 50 leading health plans. Each quarter, subscribers will receive — both electronically and printed in the newsletter — an Excel file that compares nine indicators, including premium revenue, medical, pharmacy and administrative costs, and net income (or loss). This unique data, priced at $141 per quarter, is a FREE component of your Health Plan Week subscription! Click here for more information about Key Financial Indicators for Leading Health Plans.

Written By

Health Plan Week is written by a highly experienced team of health business journalists — led by award-winning Managing Editor Steve Davis, whose journalism career includes more than a decade of health care reporting. 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.

Written For

  • HMOs, PPO and POS plans
  • Insurers
  • Employers
  • Hospitals and health systems
  • Group practices
  • Other providers

AIS Guarantee

When you subscribe to Health Plan Week, your satisfaction is fully guaranteed. If you are not completely satisfied with the newsletter within the first 30 days, just cancel and receive a prompt 100% refund. After your first 30 days, you may cancel at any time in the year ahead and receive a full prompt refund for all unmailed issues.

Shipping Information

Electronic (PDF) versions of the newsletter are available, on the newsletter’s subscriber-only Web page, on the day of publication. Recipients should whitelist aisalert@aishealth.com to ensure delivery of the e-mail notification of new issues. Print newsletters are mailed 1st class through the U.S. Postal Service. You should receive your first issue within 5-7 business days of your order. A one-time $12 shipping and handling charge will be applied to your order.

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Health Plan Week

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Introductory Subscription Price for New Subscribers (45 issues)
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