Links & Other Products

Click on the following links for additional resources related to employer-sponsored health care benefits:

Employer/Purchaser Organizations

• The Business Roundtable
• Economic and Social Research Institute
• Employee Benefits Research Institute (EBRI)
• Employer Quality Partnership
• ERISA Industry Committee (ERIC)
• Institute for Health Policy Solutions
• International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans
• The National Health Care Purchasing Institute
• National Business Group on Health

Public Health Care Purchasers

• American Health Insurance Plans
• The American Hospital Association
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
• U.S. Office of Personnel Management
• VHA, Inc.

Health Care Quality/Information Resources

• American Accreditation Health Care Commission (URAC)
• Center for Studying Health System Change
• Foundation for Accountability
• Health Services Research Projects in Progress
• Healthy Women
• Joint Commission Accreditation of Health Care Organizations
• MEDSTAT Group
• National Committee on Quality Assurance
• National Guideline Clearinghouse (internet access to hundreds of clinical practice guidelines)
• NCQA Recognized Physician Directory
• Quality Measurement Advisory Service (QMAS)

Patient Safety Organizations

• National Patient Safety Foundation
• Institute for Safe Medication Practices
• Institute Of Medicine
• Partnership for Patient Safety
• U.S. Pharmacopoeia
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• Quality Interagency Coordination Task Force (QuIC)
• National Forum for Health Care Quality Measurement and Reporting (NQF)
• Leapfrog Group

Federal Legislative/Regulatory Resources

• Administration on Aging
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
• American Benefits Council (The Benefits Association)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
• Congressional Budget Office
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Department of Health and Human Services, Health Resources and Services Administration
• Department of Labor
• Government Accounting Office
• Healthfinder
• Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
• National Governors' Association
• National Guideline Clearninghouse
• National Health Information Center
• National Institutes of Health
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
• National Library of Medicine
• White House
• The White House, Office of Management and Budget
• Thomas
• United States Census
• United States House of Representatives, Committee on Appropriations
• United States House of Representatives, Committee on Commerce, Subcommittee on Health and the Environment
• United States House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means
• United States Senate Special Committee on Aging
• United States Senate, Committee on Appropriations
• United States Senate, Committee on Finance
• United States Senate, Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

Health Care Policy Resources

• Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy
• American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
• Cato Institute
• Commonwealth Fund
• Democratic Leadership Council
• Employee Benefit Research Institute
• Grantmakers in Health
• Harvard
• Institute for Health Policy Solutions
• Johns Hopkins University
• Kaiser Family Foundation
• Kellogg Foundation
• Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
• MEDSTAT
• National Academy for State Health Policy
• National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Medicine
• National Health Policy Forum
• Pew Charitable Trusts, Health and Human Services
• RAND
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• The Brookings Institution
• The Heritage Foundation
• The Lewin Group
• Urban Institute