Plunkett's health care industry almanac
Subtitle: 2009
By: editor and publisher: Jack W. Plunkett
Contributors: Plunkett Research, Ltd
Series: Plunkett's health care industry almanac -- 2009
Publisher: Plunkett Research
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Houston, Tex
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] .
ISBN-13: 9781593924737; 9781593921323
Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Infrastructure; Medical corporations; Corporate & Business History; Directories; Medical supplies industry; Medical economics
Other titles: Healthcare industry almanac; Plunkett's healthcare industry almanac; Health care industry almanac
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Cover13;; title: CONTENTS; title: Glossary; title: INTRODUCTION; title: HOW TO USE THIS BOOK; title: Chapter 1; title: Introduction to the Health Care Industry; title: Continued Rise in Health Care Costs; title: Employers Push Health Care Costs onto Employees/On-Site Clinics Begin to Appear; title: Medicare and Medicaid Spending Continue to Surge/ Baby Boomers Pass 65 Years of Age Soon; title: Medicare Changes Include Drug Benefits for Seniors/Medicare Advantage Offers Private Fee for Service Plans; title: Health Savings Accounts and Health Reimbursement Accounts Put Responsibility on the Patient; title: Vast Number of Uninsured and Underinsured Americans; title: Universal Health Care Attempted on the Local Level; title: Few New Blockbusters: Major Drug Patents Expire While Generic Sale Soar; title: Biotech and Orphan Drugs Pick Up the Slack as Blockbuster Mainstream Drugs Age; title: Critical Lack of Qualified Nurses in the U.S. Continues Despite Federal Efforts; title: Patients Are Seeking Quality of Care Data; title: Malpractice Suits Are Blamed for Rising HealthCare Costs/Tort Reform Is Capping Awards for Damages; title: Transplants are Big Business; title: Hospitals Are Reengineering; title: Obesity Sparks Government Action; title: Health Care Goes Offshore, Private Clinics Thrive in China and India; title: Disease Management Programs Take Root; title: Clinics Open in Retail Store Settings; title: Health Care Technology Introduction; title: Information Technology and Health Care; title: Stem CellsControversy in the U.S. Threatens to Leave America Far Behind in the Research Race; title: Stem Cell Funding Trickles in the U.S. at the Federal Level While a Few States Create Funding of Their Own; title: Stem CellsTherapeutic Cloning Techniques Advance; title: Stem CellsA New Era of Regenerative Medicine Takes Shape; title: Gene Therapies and Patients Genetic Profiles Promise a Personalized Approach to Medicine; title: Breakthrough New Drug Delivery Systems Evolve; title: Advances in Cancer Research and Therapies; title: Proton BeamsThe Ultimate Radiation Therapy; title: Better Imaging, including MRI, PET and 320-Slice CT, Creates Advances in Detection; title: Molecular Imaging will Lead to Early Detection and Early Cure of Cancerous Tumors; title: Advances in Laboratory Testing; title: Advances in Surgery; title: Other Treatment Technologies; title: Chapter 2; title: I. Health Care Industry Overview; title: U.S. Health Care Industry Overview; title: Top 20 Global Health Insurance Companies by Revenues: 2007; title: Employment in the Health Care Industry, U.S.: 2001-2007; title: Employment & Earnings in Health Care Practitioner & Technical Occupations, U.S.: May 2007; title: Employment & Earnings in Health Care Support Occupations, U.S.: May 2007; title: Federal R & D & R & D Plant Funding for National Institutes of Health, U.S.: Fiscal Years 2006-2008; title: II. U.S. Health Care Expenditures & Costs; title: The Nation's Health Dollar: 2008 Where It Came From (Estimated); title: The Nation's Health Dollar: 2008 Where It Went (Estimated); title: National Health Expenditures & Selected Economic Indicators, Levels & Average Annual Percent Change, U.S.: Selected Years, 1990-2017; title: National Health Expenditures & Average Annual Percent Change: Selected Calendar Years 1980-2017; title: National Health Expenditure Amounts by Type of Expenditure, U.S.: Selected Calendar Years, 1980-2017; title: Hospital Care Expenditures & Average Annual Percent Change, U.S.: Selected Calendar Years 1980-2017; title: Hospital Care Expenditures, Percent Distribution & Per Capita Amount, U.S.: Selected Calendar Years 1980-2017; title: Home Health Care Expenditures and Average Annual Percent C.