Health Care
Choices
HCC provides visitors to its site with information on federal and state legislative
trends affecting key health care issues, articles outlining developments affecting
the cost and availability of health-care services and data for use by purchasers
of health-care coverage in evaluating health plans. Data pertaining to procedure
volume, patients' average lengths of staty in hospitals and analysis of new regulations
governing health-care coverage in New York State are a sampling of reports available
at this site.
The Medicare Web Page
Administered by the federal government, this web page provides users with comprehensive
Medicare program and benefit information. Some valuable features of this site include
search tools that assist users in identifying and comparing Medicare coverage options,
Medigap insurance carriers, and nursing homes throughout the country. Users may
also access information on health-care fraud, general health and a glossary of terms
commonly used in the health-care and insurance industries.
Center for Medical
Consumers
The Center for Medical Consumers (CMC) is a non-profit advocacy organization active
in both statewide and national efforts to improve the quality and availability of
health care. Visitors to this site may access information concerning procedure volume
in New York State hospitals and by New York State physicians (a quality measurement),
position statements on health care policy issues of interest to consumers. The site
also contains portions of the Center's monthly newsletter, "HealthFacts."
National Coalition
on Health Care
NCHC is comprised of employer groups, labor unions, religious groups and health-care
providers. It offers users access to studies, articles and position statements on
the cost of health care, access to health-care coverage, health-care services and
quality assurance in health care.
National
Health Care Anti-Fraud Association
Provides visitors with fact sheets pertaining to health-care fraud, including its
cost, prevalence, and impact upon health-care consumers as well as information concerning
the strategies used by perpetrators and efforts by anti-fraud officers and investigators
to detect and prevent health-care fraud.
American
Cancer Society
This web site offers visitors a wide range of information concerning cancer, including
fact sheets regarding specific forms of the disease, treatments employed, mortality
and morbidity statistics and general information for cancer patients and their families.
This site also provides users with reports concerning various initiatives underway
to reduce cancer rates and fund the development of new cancer treatments.
American Heart Association
Among the resources available at this site are fact sheets, statistical analyses,
special reports concerning specific cardio-pulmonary diseases and disease prevention
strategies. This web sites also provides users with information pertaining to scientific
conferences sponsored by the Association, community outreach activities and public
policy position statements.
