Business Practices  

United States

General Business

How to Maximize Profits

An article by Dale Cooper, president of Cooper Graci & Company, a Texas consulting firm that provides medical practice management services.

 

PracticeChoice Power Search

There are more than one thousand hospital, medical group and healthcare recruitment web sites.  This volume of information can make it impossible for the job seeker to locate the opportunity their looking for using traditional search engines.  PracticeChoice is a super site where all professional medical staffing executives and recruiters can cost-effectively enter, modify and delete opportunities at anytime.

 

Practicelink

The Physician & Healthcare Recruitment Super Site!  This is a site used to post and find jobs for medical personnel.

 

The Business of Medicine

Here health professionals will find the tools needed to make running a practice easier, and others will find ways to contact a variety of health care providers internationally.

Market Reports

Health Care Market Research

Samples from Innomed International, a major research and analysis company with one of the world's largest portfolios of research based publications.

 

Insurance Related

ICD-9, CPT Codes, Medical Billing by CodeCorrect

A web site created to help the entire staff of a busy medical practice. Developed by medical office managers and computer professionals, Code Correct is an invaluable resource for the medical billing office.

Medicare Information

Medicare covers approximately 37 million Americans age 65 and over and those who have permanent kidney failure and certain people with other disabilities.

 

Medicaid Information

Medicaid is a jointly-funded, Federal-State program which pays medical bills for approximately 36 million low-income and needy individuals. These individuals include children, the aged, blind, and/or disabled, and people who are eligible to receive federally assisted income maintenance payments.

 

 

The Berry List of Actuarial Resources 

Managed Care

 

Insurers' Arbitrary Discrimination Affected My Patients, Family & Career

Dr. Don Shuwarger tells of his experience when managed care took over his community.

 

Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA)

The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) is composed of top decision-makers from the major health care stakeholder groups in California. Its mission is to promote the continuing evolution of integrated health care, supported by financial mechanisms that align incentives of purchasers, payors, and providers, as the best means to achieve positive outcomes for the patient and the general public.

 

 

Managed Care

A collection by Anne Blakeslee, Cornell University.

 

Managed Health Links

Your online gateway to the best managed care web sites on the Internet. Managed Health Links makes it easier for you to find the managed care information you need on the Internet.

 

Pocket Guide to Clinical Coding

 

 

Your Money & Your Life

Focusing on the consumer issues raised in the TV special, this Web companion piece features: original reporting by Stuart Schear, Kaiser Media Fellow in Health and former health reporter for the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour (OVERVIEW, REAL LIFE STORIES); VIEWPOINTS by advocates and health professionals; DISCUSSION online; and OTHER INFORMATION that highlights resources.

 

American Medical Specialty Organization, Inc.

Offers the Managed Care Forum and other related healthcare issues. An organized panel of managed care experts will be sharing their experience and insights to your questions.

 

The HMO Group

The HMO Group, begun in 1984, is an alliance of over 30 group practice-based HMOs serving over 7 million members in major markets across the country.

 

HealthNet Data Link

HDL is a healthcare information service bureau that serves to organize, integrate and distribute decision critical healthcare information between healthcare providers payor sources, facilities, planners and other users of health data. HDL provides data, software, connectivity, training analytic and technical service and support to it's network through it's staff, consultants, alliances and computer system.

 

Group Health Cooperative

Group Health Cooperative is the nation's largest member-governed healthcare organization, serving over 625,000 members in Washington and Idaho.
 

American Association of Health Plans (AAHP)

AAHP Online is a new web site for health professionals interested in the managed care industry.

 

 

Family Health Program (FHP)

Since our beginning in 1961, FHP Health Care has grown to become the fifth largest health care company in the United States. Our home page on the Internet is part of our mission to provide useful information to the general public about HMOs, FHP, and living healthy lives.

 

Aetna U.S. Healthcare

The merger of Aetna and U.S. Healthcare in 1996 brought together one of the nation's oldest insurance and health care companies and a newer managed health care company. The new company, Aetna U.S. Healthcare™, is the first truly national managed health care company.

Quality and Decision Making

 

International Quality & Productivity Center (IQPC)

IQPC is composed of several advisory councils which provide accurate and educational information forums for specific industries. Among these councils are The Healthcare Advisory Council.

 

Cost & Quality Quarterly

Committed to providing healthcare leaders with a unique perspective on issues relevant to the successful clinical and financial management of the system's sickest and most expensive patients.
 

Express Mail and Related Services

FedEx Airbill Tracking

Airborne Express
UPS Home Page
Mail Boxes Etc.
USPS ZIP Code Lookup and Address Information

International

General Business

Grant Sources

The Business of Medicine (Global)

Here health professionals will find the tools needed to make running a practice easier, and others will find ways to contact a variety of health care providers internationally.

Market Reports

Health Care Market Research (Global)

Samples from Innomed International, a major research and analysis company with one of the world's largest portfolios of research based publications.

Managed Care

National Association of Health Authorities & Trusts (UK)

NAHAT is the leading UK organisation working for NHS management bodies. It brings together NHS health authorities, Scottish health boards, Northern Ireland health and social services boards and NHS trusts into one representative organisation covering the separate and collective views of both purchasers and providers.

 

NHS Information Management Centre (UK)

Includes Data Administration Good Practice Guidelines for GP Practices, Hospitals and Community Health Services, STEP Handbook, and Electronic Library.

Quality and Decision Making

International Quality & Productivity Center (Global)

IQPC is composed of several advisory councils which provide accurate and educational information forums for specific industries. Among these councils are The Healthcare Advisory Council.

 

Society for Medical Decision Making (Global)

Founded in 1979, the Society for Medical Decision Making is an international, interdisciplinary society dedicated to the study and improvement of all aspects of medical decision making.

 

Medical Decision Making (Global)

The official journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making.

Medico-Legal Aspects

Medical Protection Society (UK)

The Medical Protection Society is a not-for-profit, international mutual association run exclusively for, and largely by, doctors, dentists and other healthcare professionals. We offer a wide range of medico-legal services, including professional indemnity for adverse awards of costs and damages in medical negligence cases.

 

Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network (Canada)

Includes HIV/AIDS Policy & Law Newsletter, the only periodical in Canada exclusively devoted to addressing the many legal, ethical and policy issues raised by HIV/AIDS, in Canada and internationally.

 

HyperGuide to the UK's Mental Health Act (UK)

This HyperGUIDE is designed to be used both as an introduction to the Mental Health Act, and as a reference source for people with mental health needs, professional workers and others who come into contact with the Act.

 

The Medico-Legal Problems Internet Reference Page (Global)

Information on Medico-Legal topics such as informed consent, vaccine damage, product liability, no-fault liability, confidentiality, and HIV/AIDS.

Express Mail and Related Services

Federal Express (Global)
Airborne Express (Global)
Mail Boxes Etc. (Global)