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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.A special area 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 INDUSTRY ALMANAC 2008CONTENTSA 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 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 Fee forService Plans 126) Adoption of Health Savings Accounts and Health Reimbursement Accounts Begins to Slow 137) Vast Number of Uninsured and Underinsured Americans 148) Health Care for All Tested in Several States 149) Branded Pharmaceutical Costs Soar While Growing Generic Sales Slow Overall Spending 1510) Biotech 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 for Damages 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 23The Outlook for Health Care Technology: 2420) Health Care Technology Introduction 2421) Information Technology and Health Care 2422) Stem Cells--Controversy in the U.S. Threatens to Leave America Far Behind in the Research Race 2923) Stem Cell Funding Trickles at the Federal Level While a Few States Create Funding of Their Own 3024) Stem Cells--Therapeutic Cloning Techniques Advance 3125) Stem Cells--A New Era of Regenerative Medicine Takes Shape 3226) Gene Therapies and Patients' Genetic Profiles Promise a Personalized Approach to Medicine 3327) Breakthrough New Drug Delivery Systems Evolve 3528) Advances in Cancer Research and Therapies 3629) Proton Beams--The Ultimate Radiation Therapy 3730) Better Imaging, including MRI, PET and 64-Slice CT, Creates Advances in Detection 3731) Molecular Imaging will Lead to Early Detection and Early Cure of Cancerous Tumors 3932) Advances in Laboratory Testing 4033) Advances in Surgery 4134) Other Treatment Technologies 43Chapter 2: Health Care Industry Statistics 47I. U.S. Health Care Industry Overview 49U.S. Health Care Industry Overview 50Top 20 Global Health Insurance Companies by Revenues: 2006 51Employment in the Health Care Industry, U.S.: 2000-2006 52Employment & Earnings in Health Care Practitioner & Technical Occupations, U.S.: May 2006 54Employment & Earnings in Health Care Support Occupations, U.S.: May 2006 56Federal R&D & R&D Plant Funding for National Institutes of Health, U.S.: Fiscal Years 2005-2007 57II. U.S. Health Care Expenditures & Costs 59The Nation's Health Dollar, 2007: Where It Came From (Estimated) 60The Nation's Health Dollar, 2007: Where It Went (Estimated) 61National Health Expenditures & Selected Economic Indicators, Levels & Average Annual PercentChange, U.S.: Selected Years, 1990-2016 62National Health Expenditures & Average Annual Percent Change: Selected Calendar Years 1980-2016 63National Health Expenditure Amounts by Type of Expenditure, U.S.: Selected Calendar Years1980-2016 64Hospital Care Expenditures & Average Annual Percent Change, U.S.: Selected Calendar Years1980-2015 65Hospital Care Expenditures, Percent Distribution & Per Capita Amount, U.S.: Selected CalendarYears 1980-2015 66Home Health Care Expenditures & Average Annual Percent Change, U.S.: Selected Calendar Years1980-2016 67Home Health Care Expenditures, Percent Distribution & Per Capita Amounts, U.S.: Selected CalendarYears 1980-2016 68Nursing Home Care Expenditures & Average Annual Percent Change, U.S.: Selected Calendar Years,1980-2016 69Nursing Home Care Expenditures, Percent Distribution & Per Capita Amount: Selected Calendar Years1980-2016 70Prescription Drug Expenditures, U.S.: 1965-2016 71U.S. Prescription Drug Expenditures & Average Annual Percent Change: Selected Calendar Years1990-2016 73U.S. Prescription Drug Expenditures, Percent Distribution & Per Capita Amount: Selected CalendarYears, 1980-2016 74Index Levels of Medical Prices, U.S.: 2001-2006 75III. Medicare & Medicaid 77Projected Federal Spending on Medicare & Medicaid: 2003-2012 78U.S. Medicare Enrollment Estimates, Selected Years 2006-2080 79Medicare Aged & Disabled Enrollees: 1980-2007 80Medicare Enrollment by Type of Coverage: 1980-2007 81U.S. Medicare Enrollment Trends, Part A Hospital Insurance (HI): July 1970-2007 82U.S. Medicare Enrollment Trends, Part B Supplemental Medical Insurance (SMI): July 1970-2007 83Total Medicare Beneficiaries with Drug Coverage 84Medicare Deductible, Co-Payment & Premium Amounts: 2008 85IV. U.S. Health Insurance Coverage & the Uninsured 87Percent of Persons of All Ages without Health Insurance Coverage, U.S.: 1997-2006 88Number & Percent of Persons without Health Insurance Coverage, by Age Group, U.S.: 1997-2006 89People without Health Insurance for the Entire Year, U.S.: 2004-2006 90Percent of Persons under Age 65 Years without Health Insurance Coverage, by Age Group & Sex:U.S.: 2006 91Percent of Persons under Age 65 with Public Health Plan Coverage & Private Health InsuranceCoverage by Age Group, U.S.: 1997-2006 92Percent of Persons of All Ages without Health Insurance Coverage, by Race/Ethnicity, U.S.: 2006 93Employers' Costs for Health Insurance, Amount and Percent of Total Compensation, U.S.: Selected Years2002-2006 94V. U.S. Vital Statistics & Population Indicators 95Projected U.S. Population Distribution by Age Group: 2000-2050 96Life Expectancy at Age 65, U.S. 97Current Cigarette Smoking by Persons 18 Years of Age & Over According to Sex & Race, U.S.:Selected Years, 1965-2004 98Overweight & Obesity Among Persons 20 Years of Age & Over, According to Sex, Race & HispanicOrigin: Selected Years, 1960-2004 99Chapter 3: Important Health Care Industry Contacts 101(Addresses, Phone Numbers and World Wide Web Sites)Chapter 4: THE HEALTH CARE 500:Who They Are and How They Were Chosen 151Industry List, With Codes 152Index of Rankings Within Industry Groups 154Alphabetical Index 166Index of Headquarters Location by U.S. State 169Index of Non-U.S. Headquarters Location by Country 173Index by Regions of the U.S. Where the Firms Have Locations 173Index by Firms with Operations Outside the U.S. 182Individual Data Profiles on Each of THE HEALTH CARE 500 185Additional IndexesIndex of Hot Spots for Advancement for Women/Minorities 682Index by Subsidiaries, Brand Names and Selected Affiliations 684