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"Plunkett's Health Care Industry Almanac" is the only complete reference to the American Health Care Industry and its leading corporations. Whatever your purpose for researching the health care field, you'll find this award-winning reference book to be a valuable guide. No other source provides this massive book's easy-to-understand comparisons of national health expenditures, emerging technologies, patient populations, hospitals, clinics, corporations, research, Medicare, Medicaid, managed care, and many other areas of vital importance. Included in the market research sections are dozens of statistical tables covering every aspect of the industry, from Medicare expenditures to hospital utilization, from insured and uninsured populations to revenues to health care expenditures as a percent of GDP.There is a special area that covers vital statistics and health status of the U.S. population. The corporate analysis section features in-depth profiles of the 'Health Care 500'; the 500 largest and most successful for-profit firms within the health care system, from the leading companies in pharmaceuticals to the major managed care companies.
Details for each corporation include growth plans, divisions, subsidiaries, brand names, competitive advantage and financial results - as well as executives by title and valuable contact information such as phone, fax, website and address. Purchasers of either the book or PDF version can receive a free copy of the company profiles database on CD-ROM, enabling key word search and export of key information, addresses, phone numbers and executive names with titles for every company profiled.

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PLUNKETT'S HEALTH CARE INDUSTRYALMANAC 2009CONTENTSA Short Health Care Industry Glossary iIntroduction 1How to Use This Book 3Chapter 1: Major Trends Affecting the Health Care Industry 71) Introduction to the Health Care Industry 72) Continued Rise in Health Care Costs 103) Employers Push Health Care Costs onto Employees/On-Site Clinics Begin to Appear 104) Medicare and Medicaid Spending Continue to Surge/Baby Boomers Pass 65 Years of Age Soon 115) Medicare Changes Include Drug Benefits for Seniors/Medicare Advantage Offers Private Feefor Service Plans 126) Health Savings Accounts and Health Reimbursement Accounts Put Responsibility on the Patient 137) Vast Number of Uninsured and Underinsured Americans 148) Universal Health Care Attempted on the Local Level 149) Few New Blockbusters: Major Drug Patents Expire While Generic Sales Soar 1510) Biotech and Orphan Drugs Pick Up the Slack as Blockbuster Mainstream Drugs Age 1711) Critical Lack of Qualified Nurses in the U.S. Continues Despite Federal Efforts 1712) Patients Are Seeking Quality of Care Data 1813) Malpractice Suits Are Blamed for Rising Health Care Costs/Tort Reform Is Capping Awards forDamages 1814) Transplants Are Big Business 1915) Hospitals are Reengineering 1916) Obesity Sparks Government Action 2017) Health Care Goes Offshore, Private Clinics Thrive in China and India 2218) Disease Management Programs Take Root 2319) Clinics Open in Retail Store Settings 24The Outlook for Health Care Technology: 2520) Health Care Technology Introduction 2521) Information Technology and Health Care 2522) Stem Cells-Controversy in the U.S. Threatens to Leave America Far Behind in the ResearchRace 3023) Stem Cell Funding Trickles in the U.S. at the Federal Level While a Few States CreateFunding of Their Own 3224) Stem Cells-Therapeutic Cloning Techniques Advance 3225) Stem Cells-A New Era of Regenerative Medicine Takes Shape 3326) Gene Therapies and Patients' Genetic Profiles Promise a Personalized Approach to Medicine 3427) Breakthrough New Drug Delivery Systems Evolve 3628) Advances in Cancer Research and Therapies 3729) Proton Beams-The Ultimate Radiation Therapy 3830) Better Imaging, including MRI, PET and 320-Slice CT, Creates Advances in Detection 3931) Molecular Imaging will Lead to Early Detection and Early Cure of Cancerous Tumors 4132) Advances in Laboratory Testing 4233) Advances in Surgery 4334) Other Treatment Technologies 45Chapter 2: Health Care Industry Statistics 49I. U.S. Health Care Industry Overview 50U.S. Health Care Industry Overview 51Top 20 Global Health Insurance Companies by Revenues: 2007 52Employment in the Health Care Industry, U.S.: 2001-2007 53Employment & Earnings in Health Care Practitioner & Technical Occupations, U.S.: May 2007 54Employment & Earnings in Health Care Support Occupations, U.S.: May 2007 55Federal R&D & R&D Plant Funding for National Institutes of Health, U.S.: Fiscal Years 2006-2008 56II. U.S. Health Care Expenditures & Costs 57The Nation's Health Dollar, 2008: Where It Came From (Estimated) 58The Nation's Health Dollar, 2008: Where It Went (Estimated) 59National Health Expenditures & Selected Economic Indicators, Levels & Average Annual PercentChange, U.S. Selected Years, 1990-2017 60National Health Expenditures & Average Annual Percent Change: Selected Calendar Years 1980-2017 61National Health Expenditure Amounts by Type of Expenditure, U.S.: Selected Calendar Years,1980-2017 62Hospital Care Expenditures & Average Annual Percent Change, U.S.: Selected Calendar Years1980-2017 63Hospital Care Expenditures, Percent Distribution & Per Capita Amount, U.S.: Selected CalendarYears 1980-2017 64Home Health Care Expenditures and Average Annual Percent Change, U.S.: Selected CalendarYears 1980-2017 65Home Health Care Expenditures, Percent Distribution & Per Capita Amounts, U.S.: Selected CalendarYears 1980-2017 66Nursing Home Care Expenditures & Average Annual Percent Change, U.S.: Selected Calendar Years,1980-2017 67Nursing Home Care Expenditures, Percent Distribution & Per Capita Amount: Selected CalendarYears 1980-2017 68Prescription Drug Expenditures, U.S.: 1965-2017 69U.S. Prescription Drug Expenditures & Average Annual Percent Change: Selected Calendar Years1990-2017 71U.S. Prescription Drug Expenditures, Percent Distribution & Per Capita Amount: Selected CalendarYears, 1980-2017 72Index Levels of Medical Prices, U.S.: 2002-2007 73III. Medicare & Medicaid 74Projected Federal Spending on Medicare & Medicaid: 2004-2013 75U.S. Medicare Enrollment Estimates, Selected Years 2006-2080 76Medicare Aged & Disabled Enrollees: 1980-2008 77Medicare Enrollment by Type of Coverage, 1980-2008 78U.S. Medicare Enrollment Trends, Part A Hospital Insurance (HI): July 1970-2008 79U.S. Medicare Enrollment Trends, Part B Supplemental Medical Insurance (SMI): 1970-2008 80Medicare Beneficiaries with Prescription Drug Coverage, Summary Report: September 2008 81Medicare Deductible, Co-Payment & Premium Amounts: 2009 82IV. U.S. Health Insurance Coverage & the Uninsured 84Percent of Persons of All Ages without Health Insurance Coverage, U.S.: 1997-2007 85Number & Percent of Persons without Health Insurance Coverage, by Age Group, U.S.: 1997-2007 86People without Health Insurance for the Entire Year, U.S.: 2006-2007 87Percent of Persons under Age 65 Years without Health Insurance Coverage, by Age Group & Sex:U.S.: 2007 88Percent of Persons under Age 65 with Public Health Plan Coverage & Private Health InsuranceCoverage by Age Group, U.S.: 1997-2007 89Percent of Persons of All Ages without Health Insurance Coverage, by Race/Ethnicity, U.S.: 2007 90Employers' Costs for Health Insurance, Amount & Percent of Total Compensation, U.S.: SelectedYears 2003-2007 91V. U.S. Vital Statistics & Population Indicators 92Projected U.S. Population Distribution by Age Group: 2000-2050 93Life Expectancy at Age 65, U.S. 94Current Cigarette Smoking by Persons 18 Years of Age & Over According to Sex & Race, U.S.:Selected Years, 1965-2006 95Overweight & Obesity Among Persons 20 Years of Age & Over, According to Sex, Race & HispanicOrigin: Selected Years, 1960-2004 96Chapter 3: Important Health Care Industry Contacts 97(Addresses, Phone Numbers and Internet Sites)Chapter 4: THE HEALTH CARE 500:Who They Are and How They Were Chosen 140Industry List, With Codes 141Index of Rankings Within Industry Groups 143Alphabetical Index 156Index of Headquarters Location by U.S. State 159Index of Non-U.S. Headquarters Location by Country 163Index by Regions of the U.S. Where the Firms Have Locations 163Index by Firms with Operations Outside the U.S. 172Individual Data Profiles on Each of THE HEALTH CARE 500 174Additional IndexesIndex of Hot Spots for Advancement for Women/Minorities 673Index by Subsidiaries, Brand Names and Selected Affiliations 675