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The Managed Care Yearbook, Fifth Edition
From The Managed Care Information Center
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Frequently Asked Questions
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What is the Managed Care Yearbook?
The Managed Care Yearbook is a compilation of what has happened in the managed care field over the past two years including industry facts, figures, comparisons and trends. The information is drawn from all the news and information that was reported by healthcare business editors for The Executive Report on Managed Care. Editions of the Yearbook can be found in thousands of health and managed care executive's offices throughout the country.
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Is the Managed Care Yearbook what's known as a "Reference" book?
Yes. The Yearbook is the kind of resource that is nearby on a bookshelf - there when you need it. You can use the Yearbook to help you dig up facts on any subject related to managed care. You can look up facts, statistics, market data - what other companies are doing in moments.
The Managed Care Yearbook is a popular reference volume in use throughout the country. The yearbook is on standing order with many reference, major public, university and corporate business information libraries. The Yearbook is generally regarded as the best managed care industry market research tool in the country.
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Is the Managed Care Yearbook a directory too?
No. Although the Yearbook contains hundreds of business intelligence references about specific managed care organizations, it is not a directory of the industry.
You can learn about the National Directory of Managed Care Organizations by going to:
http://www.healthresourcesonline.com/managed_care/dmcindex.htm
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What does the Managed Care Yearbook contain?
There are 22 chapters in The Managed Care Yearbook, containing more than 608 pages of industry business information and competitive intelligence: managed care issues, costs, analyses, comparisons, insight, strategies and benchmarks.
The Yearbook organizes industry facts, trends, statistics, costs, analyses, comparisons, enrollment and premium tracking studies into logical chapters and sections for ease of use for fact-finding and decision making.
There is benchmark MCO financial data, managed care financing trends, the financial outlook, premium increase trends, MCOs and profitability, capitation, plan financial data, and MCO expense rates.
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Can I see exactly what the Managed Care Yearbook contains?
The easiest way to review the Yearbook's editorial material is to click on the following link to the Table of Contents: http://www.healthresourcesonline.com/managed_care/14ybk52.htm#toc
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Is the Managed Care Yearbook indexed?
The Yearbook is indexed alphabetically for ease of use and by subject index to look up a company or a subject. It also includes four appendices
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What charts or tables does the Managed Care Yearbook contain?
Among the charts and tables included in the Yearbook are monthly premiums by plan type, enrollment trends, average premium increases, and the ranking of HMOs based on enrollment increases. Also, average HMO penetration by market size, the top 25 largest HMOs ranked by total enrollment, managed care transactions, and Average premium cost increases.
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What is your expertise in managed care?
Our publisher has been working in or writing about health - managed care more than 30 years. He served on the management team of a major New Jersey medical center for 10 years. He has been chairman of the board of a New Jersey two-hospital system and treasurer of a leading New Jersey integrated healthcare delivery system. Our organization is one of the "pioneers" in covering what was then the emerging managed care industry.
Today, we are the nation's leading and most experienced editorial team covering the managed care field. Our Executive Report on Managed Care regularly provides readers across the country with the most up-to-date and concise interpretive reports on what is happening in managed care today.
Since we also research, gather, analyze and compile managed care industry data for production of the National Directory of Managed Care Organizations, much of our MCO business information is "primary" source data exclusively researched by our team.
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Who uses the Managed Care Yearbook?
The yearbook is a fixture in health and managed care marketing departments and executives offices. Leading human resources and benefits consulting firms turn to the yearbook for trend data.
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What do Yearbook users say?
Here are comments by The Managed Care Yearbook buyers:
"The Managed Care Yearbook has concise info in all the areas it addresses."
"I like the completeness of all aspects of the information contained in The Managed Care Yearbook." "The Managed Care Yearbook offers good case studies and statistics."
"Great information! There wasn't any feature of the book I felt needed improvement."
"All the features of The Managed Care Yearbook were educational!"
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About The Managed Care Information Center
The Managed Care Information Center (MCIC) gathers, collects, compiles, analyzes, studies, interprets and distributes business news and information on the managed care industry. The MCIC delivers this strategic business information to its clients via executive newsletters, yearbooks, leading industry databases and directories, management reports, and client research studies. The information is available in print, on CD-ROM and via the Internet at www.themcic.com.
The Managed Care Information Center
1913 Atlantic Avenue F4
Manasquan, NJ 08736
1-800-516-4343
Fax 1-888-329-6242
Research@themcic.com
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You can also order from Health Resources Online by calling
1-800-516-4343.
© 2002 Health Resources Publishing
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