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Business and Employer Coalitions Try to Challenge the Cost and Inefficient Delivery of Health Care.


DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c31573) has announced the addition of Business Coalitions Market Overview to their offering.

Business and Employer Coalitions have formed to collectively purchase health care and pharmacy benefits, proactively challenge high costs and the inefficient delivery of health care, and share information on quality. Coalitions and their member employers are working with providers and pharmacy benefit managers to improve health care delivery systems nationwide. Purchasing value means rewarding quality and cost-effectiveness in the delivery of health care services and pharmacy benefits -- not just seeking the lowest price. Business and Employer Coalitions continue to play a large role in the purchase of health care and pharmacy benefits for their members. This Business Coalitions Market Overview, 291 pages, identifies the major issues and trends affecting the market, as well as providing brief profiles on nearly 60 of the leading coalitions in the nation.

This Business Coalitions Market Overview, 291 pages in length, includes information on the market trends and issues affecting employer coalitions. The Business Coalition Market Overview also provides brief profiles on nearly 60 of the leading coalitions in the nation. Each Business Coalition profile includes the following information, when available: organization background, organization strategy, health care and pharmacy benefit programs and services, and recent activities.

Topics Covered

Industry Overview/Trends

List of Coalitions by Covered Lives

Alliance for Health

Aon Corporation/ National Prescription Drug prescription drug Prescription medication Pharmacology An FDA-approved drug which must, by federal law or regulation, be dispensed only pursuant to a prescription–eg, finished dose form and active ingredients subject to the provisos of the Federal Food, Drug,  Coalition

Business Council of Alabama

Business Health Care Group of Southeast WI

Buyers Health Care Action Group

Colorado Business Group on Health

Council of Smaller Enterprises

Dallas-Fort Worth/Texas BGH (chat) bgh - Be Good Humans.  

Employers Coalition on Health

Employer Health Care Alliance

Employer Health Care Alliance Cooperative

Employers Health Coalition

Employers Health Coalition

Employers Health Cooperative

Employers Health Purchasing Corp. of Ohio

Florida Health Care Coalition

Fond du Lac Fond du Lac (fŏn` də lăk', –jə–), city (1990 pop. 37,757), seat of Fond du Lac co., E central Wis., in a resort region at the south end of Lake Winnebago; inc. 1852.  Area Businesses on Health

FrontPath Health Coalition

Gateway Purchasers for Health

Georgia Business Forum on Health

Georgia Healthcare Leadership Council

Greater Detroit Area Health Council

Hampton Roads Hampton Roads, roadstead, 4 mi (6.4 km) long and 40 ft (12.2 m) deep, SE Va., through which the waters of the James, Nansemond, and Elizabeth rivers pass into Chesapeake Bay.  Health Coalition

Health Action Council of Northeast Ohio

HealthCare 21 Business Coalition

Health Care Alliance Value and Effectiveness

Health Care Payers Coalition of New Jersey

Health Policy Corporation of Iowa

Heartland Healthcare Coalition

Houston Business Group on Health

HR Policy Association/DPPC

Inland NW Business Coalition on Health

Lancaster County Lancaster County is the name of four counties in the United States:
  • Lancaster County, Nebraska
  • Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
  • Lancaster County, South Carolina
  • Lancaster County, Virginia
 Business Group on Health

Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States.  Health Services health services Managed care The benefits covered under a health contract  Coalition

Lehigh Valley The Lehigh Valley or the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metropolitan area is a metropolitan region in eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey, in the United States. It is the third-most populated metropolitan region in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh.  Business Council on Health

Louisiana Business Group on Health

Maine Health Management Coalition

Mid-Atlantic Business Group on Health

Midwest Business Group on Health

Massachusetts Healthcare Purchaser Group

Memphis Business Group on Health

Mid-America Coalition on Health Care

Nevada Health Care Coalition

New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 Business Group on Health

Niagara Health Quality Coalition

Oregon Coalition of Health Care Purchasers

Pacific Business Group on Health

Piedmont Piedmont, region, Italy
Piedmont (pēd`mŏnt), Ital. Piemonte, region (1991 pop. 4,302,565), 9,807 sq mi (25,400 sq km), NW Italy, bordering on France in the west and on Switzerland in the north.
 Health Coalition

Pittsburgh Business Group on Health

REAL Health

Rochester Health Commission

South Florida Health Coalition

Savannah Savannah, city, United States
Savannah, city (1990 pop. 137,560), seat of Chatham co., SE Ga., a port of entry on the Savannah River near its mouth; inc. 1789.
 Business Group

SouthWest Health Alliance

Towers Perrin Towers Perrin is a global professional services firm.

It was established 1 March 1934 as Towers, Perrin, Forster & Crosby. The umbrella name of Towers Perrin was adopted in 1987.
 Rx Collaborative

Tri-River Employers Healthcare Coalition

Tri-State Business Group on Health

Tri-State Health Care Coalition

WisconsinRx

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Summary

Our Business Coalitions Market Overview, 216 pages in length, includes information on the market trends and issues affecting employer coalitions. The Business Coalition Market Overview also more then 50 of the leading coalitions in the nation. Each Business Coalition is profiled with the following information, when available: organization background, organization strategy, programs and services, membership, and recent activities.

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