Additional Features Included with Paid Memberships

For just $15 a month*, you'll get all these features, in addition to the ones you currently enjoy with your MCOL Free! membership. Click here to upgrade your membership now!


Daily News
Paid members also receive Healthwire from BusinessWire with a wide menu of daily health care press releases, Benefits Buzz from BenefitsLink and MCOL's Managed Care News Round the Web, with managed care feature stories.

Publications
Paid Members get a wide range of additional publications, with archives of back issues, including: *MCOL Week-End; * @Employer from MCOL;  *@How To from MCOL (expanded edition);*Daily Factoids from MCOL (5x per week); * plus several more MCOL newsletters just for paid members, and many periodicals from other publishers including *Managed Care Interface Magazine (Medicom International); * The DealMakers Forum Newsletter from Irving Levin Association; * NHI Healthcare Management e-briefing; * Company in the Spotlight from Knowledge Source;  * e-Care Management News from Better Health Technologies;  *E-Health Law Advisory Bulletins (Davis Wright Tremaine LLP); and many other publications

Resource Centers
*Expanded Article Library: there are over 2,000 additional health management articles in the Paid Member Library
*HIPAA Center: The paid HIPAA center has searchable databases of HIPAA articles, HIPAA resource links, HIPAA conference presentations and more.
*Data Center: An archive of all Weekly Data Delivery files, Daily Factoids, Hot Topic data files and several more data features are provided for all paid members.  Silver or Gold members get almost 2,000+ more data files as a premium feature
*Expanded Stock Center: Paid Members get the Healthcare Industry Best and Worst Performers; and the Stock Watch SEC Filings Resource Page
*Forum Archives: a searchable archive of member forum messages is provided for paid members
 

Discounts
Paid members get an exclusive 50% discount on HealthcareWebSummit events plus a free pass to the Future Care web summit; a 10% discount on MCOL products including HealthQuest Publications, and 5% discount on all other products offered in the Managed Care Store and HMO Market Reports.

e-Mail Delivery Services
*Weekly Data Delivery Services- Paid Members get an interesting managed care data file selected for e-mail delivery each week. All you have to do is click reply to receive.
*Member Forum Messages- Paid Members can network and share experiences with other members simply be sending an e-mail to MCOL, and MCOL takes care of the rest.
*Expanded e-Newsletters- Paid members get the acclaimed MCOL Week-End every Friday, Daily Factoids M-F, and the other various MCOL published newsletters listed under publications
*Research Support- Paid Members simply have to send an e-mail to get support finding the  information they're looking for.

Tools
*Directories- Paid members can use drop down boxes to search for applicable organizations using 8 different directories including Health Plans, Provider Organizations, Administrative Organizations; PBMs, Pharma, Associations, Regulatory Agencies
* e-Networking- Paid Members can use this tool and search for and send messages to other paid members, while still preserving e-mail address privacy of the recipient
*Utilization Calculator- Paid Members can quickly calculate days per 1,000, pmpm or pmpy utilization rates using the powerful but easy to use Utilization Calculator
*Clip Art- Paid members are licensed to use over 80 special health care and managed care clip-art images 
*Best Ratings- Paid members can check Best Ratings for applicable plans
* Plus additional tools

Premium Features*
With a Silver membership you'll also get:
* Health Plan Database
* Silver Data Database with 2,000+ files
Gold members get all the above premium features plus a software suite CD-ROM of e-learning applications and periodic downloads to the on-line health plan database

* Bronze Members get all the above features in addition to what's available for Free! members, except for Premium Features. Refer to the Premium Features section above for added services available for Silver and Gold memberships.

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