Health Care Cost Resource Kit
Everyone agrees that health care costs are rising at an unsustainable rate, and these costs are particularly hardest on America’s hardworking families and employers. To help inform the debate about the best solution for the health care cost crisis, we have compiled a variety of studies, reports, data points and other resources on the issue of health care costs.
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The Latest News on Health Care
Do you want to know what’s happening with health care reform implementation? Want the latest news on health care costs? Then you should be following our blog at www.americanhealthsolution.org.blog and our Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/cfas2009. It’s the best way to stay on top of the latest health care related news.
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Innovations in Reducing Preventable Hospital Admissions, Readmissions, and Emergency Room Use
A review of health plan programs to revitalize primary care, improve care coordination, and help patients avoid adverse health events.
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Health Care Reform Implementation and Medicare and Medicaid
As health plan leaders and their teams plan for the implementation of the recently enacted health care reform law, AHIP’s Medicare and Medicaid Conferences, September 12-16 (Medicare September 12-14; Medicaid September 15-16), in Washington, D.C., will feature sessions that will help you guide your organization through the coming months and beyond. Both conferences will address a full range of important issues, such as re-shaping the Medicare and Medicaid programs, oversight of Medicare Advantage and Part D marketing requirements, and integrating the Medicare and Medicaid programs to better serve dually eligible beneficiaries.
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Health Care Reform Implementation in the States
AHIP’s State Issues Conference, September 30 - October 1, in Washington, D.C. is your opportunity to learn more about health care reform implementation in the states. The fall timeframe allows us to examine implementation progress and its affect on states, including broad national reform efforts to changes in Medicare, Medicaid, and more.
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Transitioning to ICD-10
On October 1, 2013, hospitals, physicians and health plans will begin using a new system of medical coding called ICD-10. To help with this transition health plans are working with CMS to provide information related to the new coding system to doctors, hospitals, and other groups affected by the change.
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Leading the Way through Change
As we enter a new era in which old business models and paradigms will not suffice, there is much to learn. We will need to learn quickly, and, in applying what we learn, we will need to be nimble. From overall business strategies to execution, the AHIP Foundation and Harvard School of Public Health’s Forces of Change in Health Insurance Leadership Program is a comprehensive educational opportunity that will fill your toolbox with solid ideas to lead through change. You’ll learn from leading Harvard faculty and health care leaders September 26-28 in Boston.
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From Discussions to Action
As health care reform implementation continues, AHIP’s Fall Forum 2010, November 8-10 in Chicago, is your opportunity to take a few days from the office to immerse yourself in educational sessions that will deliver solid next steps to help you guide your organization. You’ll hear from health care and business leaders in keynote, workshop, concurrent, and breakfast sessions and have plenty of time to network.
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Publications You Want at Prices You Can Afford.
Summer is a perfect time to enhance your professional skills and performance with economically-priced publications from the AHIP Center for Insurance Education and Professional Development. Save 20% on select titles covering topics including health insurance fundamentals, anti-fraud, long-term care, disability, care management, and more. Offer ends September 30, 2010. See the Center’s website for details.
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Customer Service Strategies: Creating New Priorities
Join the AHIP Center for Insurance Education and Professional Development Wednesday, September 29, from 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm ET, for an informative virtual seminar where you'll learn strategies for building outstanding customer service and positive rapport with your clients. Products, benefits, and costs may all be similar, but the key to building long-term relationships with your clients is often the service you provide. Attracting new customers is often a long and expensive process, reminding us that quality customer service is the glue that cements relationships between your company and customers.
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AHIP’s Medical Leadership Forum
As health care reform implementation takes shape, your ability to build lasting value during times of transformation is imperative to any organization’s success. AHIP’s Medical Leadership Forum, October 20 to 22, is your opportunity to take time to focus on the leadership challenges of transforming health care reform, re-evaluate both short-term and long-term strategies, and create sustainable value for the future.
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New Tool Available for Health Plans to Assess their Health Literacy Programs
Developed by Emory University researcher Dr. Julie Gazmararian, working with the AHIP Health Literacy Task Force, this new tool allows health plans to assess their health literacy programs and to use the assessments in the development and advancement of their initiatives.
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Recruiting Health Care Candidates with AHIP HI-WIRE Career Source
AHIP HI-WIRE Career Source is a job site directed exclusively to the health care market. You’ll find a website that’s fast and easy to use, high visibility for your job postings, and lots of content for the HR professional. AHIP HI-WIRE Career Source is your single "go to" site when it comes to finding the strongest, most successful candidates for your organization.
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Order your copy of AIS’s Directory of Health Plans: 2010 from the AHIP Store today
AIS’s Directory of Health Plans: 2010 is now available in the AHIP Store. Available in print and on CD-ROM, this Directory puts the health insurance industry contact and analysis information that you need at your fingertips. Use this directory to find company contact information, types of primary care products offered, national and state-level enrollment data by company, identify market trends, determine which PPO networks may best serve your benefit design offerings, develop benchmarks for determining the prevalence of certain types of plan models to create projections about which areas are likely to grow, and more. Visit the AHIP Store to order your copy today.
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Go Beyond the Fundamentals of Health Insurance
The Professional, Health Insurance Advanced Studies (PHIAS) designation from the AHIP Center for Insurance Education and Professional Development focuses on the evolving health insurance industry, and goes beyond the fundamentals of health insurance, covering employee benefits and supplemental products like DI, LTC, and more.
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AHIP HI-WIRE – Connecting You to the Health Insurance Industry
Designed to help time-starved professionals like you. AHIP HI-WIRE is the single best source for news and analysis that covers the full health insurance industry. Don't want to visit a Web site every day? AHIP HI-WIRE's dynamic e-newsletter, AHIP HI-WIRE Connection, will continue to be fully customizable and delivered to your inbox.
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More Featured Spotlights
Our goal is to provide a unified voice for the health care financing industry, to expand access to high quality, cost effective health care to all Americans, and to ensure Americans’ financial security through robust insurance markets, product flexibility and innovation, and an abundance of consumer choice.
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