The following is a listing of resources which you may find helpful. They include benefits, healthcare and self-insurance industry publications, associations and government URLs.

Benefits, Healthcare, and Human Resource Publications

• Employee Benefit News - A leading business publication on health care, retirement planning, compensation and other employee benefit issues.
• eHealthcare Strategy & Trends - An online publication that provides healthcare providers with the tools, insights, and expert advice to focus on achieving a positive ROI through Internet strategies.
• Health Data Management - Site by the publishers of HDM magazine with editorial plus additional features
• Healthcare Informatics - Site with resources for healthcare IT professionals
• Health Leaders - Site of a leading multi-platform media company dedicated to meeting the business information needs of healthcare executives and professionals.
• Internet Healthcare Strategies - A site produced by COR Health LLC, sister company of COR Healthcare Resources, the leading publisher of high-level, mission-critical newsletters and targeted decision-support resources and publications for healthcare leaders.
• Modern Healthcare - Site by publishers of the only health care business news weekly that provides hospital executives with reliable, up-to-date and comprehensive healthcare news.
• Human Resource Executive - A national publication focused on strategic issues in HR.
• HRO Today - A trade publication focusing on human resources outsourcing.

Associations and Other Resources

• Employee Benefits Institute of America LLC (EBIA) - A leading provider of publications and seminars on Cafeteria Plans, 401(k) Plans, COBRA, HIPAA and ERISA.
• International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans (IFEBP) - A nonprofit educational association serving the employee benefits field.
• BenefitsLink - A site offering free compliance information and tools for employee benefit plan sponsors, service-providers and participants.
• Health Care Administrators Association - A nonprofit organization of third party administrators.
• Self-Insurance Institute of America - National association dedicated exclusively to protecting and promoting the self-insurance and alternative risk transfer industry.
• American College of Healthcare Executives - An international professional society of 30,000 healthcare executives who lead our nation's hospitals, healthcare systems, and other healthcare organizations.
• Center for Health Care Strategies - A nonprofit organization focused on improving the quality of health and health related services for beneficiaries of the nation’s health coverage safety net—-Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
• National Institutes of Health - Site of one of the world's foremost medical research centers, and the Federal focal point for medical research in the United States.
• American Accreditation HealthCare Commission/URAC - Not-for-profit entity that establishes accreditation standards for the managed care industry, including utilization review, network practitioner credentialing, and 24-hour telephone triage and health information.
• National Managed Health Care Congress (NMHCC) - Leading source for health care and biotechnology events, publications, training and information.
• America's Health Insurance Plans - Represents more than 1,000 HMOs, PPOs and other network-based plans dedicated to a philosophy of health care that puts the patient first.
• National Committee For Quality Assurance (NCQA) - An independent, non-profit organization that assesses and reports on the quality of care delivered by managed care organizations.
• Disease Management Association of America (DMAA) - A non-profit, voluntary membership organization representing all aspects of the disease management community.
• Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) - The world's largest human resource management association, providing a variety of resources for the HR profession.