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HIPAA SECURITY BREACHES: 10 STEPS TO TAKE WHEN A BREACH OCCURS, a 90-minute Webinar on February 24, 2010.  Find out the exact steps you should take to minimize the damage caused by a security breach and prevent impermissible disclosures down the road from two privacy experts, Rebecca Fayed, an attorney with Sonnenschein Nath and Rosenthal LLP in Washington, D.C., and Greg Young, the privacy and information security officer at Mammoth Hospital in Mammoth Lakes, Calif. ($329)

MENTAL HEALTH PARITY: HOW TO COMPLY WITH NEW FINAL REGS, a 90-minute Webinar on February 25, 2010. Get strategic insights on steps your organization must take to fully comply with the new parity regulations, and specific actions you can take to control costs while ensuring the availability of behavioral health care benefits – from two experts on the legislation, Rhonda Robinson Beale, M.D., chief medical officer for UnitedHealth Group subsidiary OptumHealth Behavioral Solutions, and John Hickman, Esq., head of Health & Welfare Benefits in the Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation Group at the law firm Alston & Bird, LLP in Atlanta. ($329)

ACCOUNTABLE CARE ORGANIZATIONS: STRATEGIES THAT HEALTH PLANS SHOULD IMPLEMENT NOW, a 90-minute Webinar on March 2, 2010.  Are Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) rivals or allies for plans? And what should plans be doing now to prepare for this new strategy in how health care is delivered and paid for?  Find out what your organization should do now from two Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP experts, Bruce Merlin Fried, former Medicare managed care head in the Clinton administration, and Mark Hamelburg. ($329)

2000-2009 SURVEY RESULTS: PHARMACY BENEFIT TRENDS & DATA, a valuable book and CD resource that features the complete results — plus analyses — of AIS’s quarterly survey of pharmacy benefit management companies, from the second quarter of 2000 to the second quarter of 2009. It contains hundreds of charts, tables and graphs on costs, benefit design, utilization and PBM market share, plus a complete directory of PBMs, PBAs, SPPs and related companies. An accompanying CD contains all of the raw survey data in spreadsheet form. ($1,275)

THE AIS GUIDE TO MEDICARE COMPLIANCE RISKS & STRATEGIES FOR HOSPITALS, PHYSICIAN GROUPS AND OTHER PROVIDERS, overview and analysis on the big-dollar topics of greatest concern to health care compliance professionals and anyone responsible for running a Medicare program. The book includes chapters on coding and billing, documentation, reimbursement, Recovery Audit Contractors, OIG audits, fraud and abuse, anti-kickback and Stark laws, privacy and data security, and more. CD version also available. ($378)

HEALTH PLAN FACTS, TRENDS AND DATA: 2009-2010, a best-selling annual book brimming with insightful news on important trends that are re-shaping the health care industry, and reliable data, directories and other valuable resources you can put to work today. This new edition contains key information on the hottest issues facing the industry today, including: health reform, the impact of the economy on health plans, federal and state employee health benefits programs, the Ingenix legal battle, and more. ($398)

COMPLYING WITH THE MENTAL HEALTH PARITY AND ADDICTION EQUITY ACT provides insight for health plans and plan sponsors into the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act’s legal requirements. Written by experienced health benefits attorneys John R. Hickman, Esq., and Laurie Kirkwood, Esq., of the law firm of Alston & Bird, LLP, the book provides hands-on guidance for making complicated benefit design decisions that comply with the parity requirements. ($179)

THE AIS GUIDE TO BLUE CROSS AND BLUE SHIELD PLANS, a competitive intelligence resource from the editors of The AIS Report on Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans. It contains reliable information on Blues plans’ products, market strategies, acquisitions and alliances — including financial projections and hard-to-find data on revenues, earnings, enrollment and medical loss ratios. (Published independently by AIS. Not affiliated with or sponsored, endorsed or approved by the BlueCross BlueShield Association or any of the independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield companies.) ($427) CD version also available.

A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO MANAGING NEVER EVENTS AND HOSPITAL-ACQUIRED CONDITIONS provides guidance on patient safety and preventable adverse events to help you reduce risks, prevent lost reimbursement, increase quality of care and improve outcomes. Written by three top patient safety leaders — Robert F. Bunting, Jr., Jay Schukman, MD, and Wesley B. Wong, MD — this resource is the first of its kind to chronicle the efforts of the past decade to address the challenge of patient safety. Subscription includes a looseleaf guide, companion CD and one biannual update. ($287)

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