Health Plan Week

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

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Renew your subscription to Health Plan Week to benchmark your competitors and maximize your opportunities in the days ahead.

Staggering change lies ahead for health plans, and the stakes involved – for plans themselves and their business partners – are equally staggering.

When you renew your subscription to Health Plan Week, you’ll have a constant stream of timely news and insightful strategies on how:

• Health reform is revolutionizing benefit design, with new rules on pre-existing conditions, rescissions, dependent coverage, waiting periods, gender bias, age bands, wellness incentives, annual and lifetime limits, preventive services and much more.
• Medical loss ratio regulations are driving a top-down appraisal of how plans do business … and are impacting disease management, broker commissions and more.
• Radical new models for care delivery and reimbursement are being launched, such as medical homes, accountable care organizations and state insurance exchanges,
• Medicare Advantage, Part D and Medicaid are undergoing major transformations ... with huge fallout for many health plans.
• Gigantic changes are in motion for setting usual and customary rates, implementing EHRs, achieving mental health parity, testing new pharmacy management strategies and more.

Renew your subscription today to continue reading the industry’s top source of news, data and analysis.

This brave new world for insurers requires creative, fast-moving management with access to reliable news, data and proven business strategies. Health Plan Week provides the intelligence you need to retain and grow group enrollment, stake out – and keep – a foothold in the individual market, participate in successful coverage-expansion initiatives, and track the anticipated explosion of new mergers and acquisitions. Your one-year subscription renewal 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
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• 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 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.