AHIP’s Health Care Reform Proposals
Health care reform needs to be a top priority. Over the past two years, America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) has put forth a series of health care reform proposals to cover every American, improve the quality and safety of health care, reform the individual health insurance market, and reduce rising health care costs. Visit www.AHIPBelieves.com to learn more about these proposals.
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AHIP Launches the Campaign for an American Solution
AHIP recently launched the Campaign for an American Solution, a new national grassroots and educational initiative to build support for workable health care reform based on core principles shared by the American people: coverage, affordability, quality, value, choice and portability. Click here to learn more about the campaign: www.americanhealthsolution.org.
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How will the New Administration's Policies Affect Our Nation's Health Care Landscape?
In 2009 and beyond, health care will continue to be a top priority for us as a nation. What will be the key provisions of the new Administration's health care proposals and what do they mean for our industry? Attend AHIP's 2009 National Policy Forum in Washington, D.C. and learn form speakers who will focus on what's ahead.
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Publication Highlights Health Plan Innovations in Prevention, Wellness
AHIP’s Innovations in Prevention, Wellness and Risk Reduction monograph highlights innovative initiatives that capture health insurance plans’ commitment to programs that prevent disease and improve the lives of their members and their communities by helping them stay well. The publication features forty company profiles and essays by five noted experts who explore the reasons why the related challenges of prevention, wellness and risk reduction for chronic disease require both innovative and comprehensive responses.
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AHIP Releases Recommendations for Addressing Obesity
AHIP’s white paper, Facing the Challenge of Unhealthy Weight: Recommendations for the Health Care Community, offers several recommendations and examines promising programs that health insurance plans and clinicians have developed in collaboration with community partners to encourage body mass index (BMI) screening and address the obesity epidemic. Recommendations include making routine BMI screening and interpretation a standard clinical practice; connecting BMI screening to evidence-based prevention and treatment options; and building partnerships and disseminating promising practices among health plans, physicians and clinicians, employers and community groups.
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Health Insurance Plan Regulation Chart
AHIP recently released a convenient one-page chart summarizing health plan regulation at the federal and state levels. You may click on this link to access a printable PDF version of the chart.
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Tomorrow's Business Solutions Today
Marketplace demands for improved quality and reduced cost along with economic changes are creating significant shifts in the health care sector. How do health insurance plans respond to employer and consumer demands, streamline administrative operations, increase capability, and improve health care for all Americans while reducing costs? Turn to AHIP’s Business Forum 2008, November 17-19 in Chicago, to help find tomorrow's business solutions today.
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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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New Online Training Program for Medicare Advantage and Part D
In light of the intense scrutiny of Medicare marketing activities, and the pressure we feel from Congress, beneficiary groups, and other stakeholders, as well as the increasingly stringent requirements established by the CMS, the AHIP Center for Insurance Education and Professional Development has launched a new online training program, Marketing Medicare Advantage and Part D Prescription Drug Plans: Understanding Medicare Basics, Plan Options, and Marketing and Enrollment Requirements. This course is designed to strengthen your organization’s marketing staff, agents, and brokers ability to provide the information beneficiaries need to make the decisions that are best for them.
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Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Guide: How to Choose Your 2008 Plan
AHIP recently published a new guide/workbook for helping Medicare beneficiaries make informed decisions about their prescription drug plan options for 2008. This resource is an updated version of a guide, released last year by AHIP, that received positive feedback from beneficiaries, advocates and other partners.
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An Online Guide to Resolving Health Insurance Disputes
This new site is the first step in establishing a clearinghouse for consumer information about the appeals process for health insurance claims. Over the coming weeks, we will continue to build the website to provide consumers with additional information, including state-specific procedures on how to appeal claims.
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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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