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Comprehensive sites

Health Hippo

http://hippo.findlaw.com/hippohome.html

Excellent "...collection of policy and regulatory materials related to health care..." Includes links to cases, statutes, and regulations, congressional testimony, news and reports. Covers topics such as antitrust, medicare/medicaid, quality assurance, public health, policy and administration, etc.

Toolbox for Health Managers and Administrators (Pam Pohly)

http://www.pohly.com/admin.shtml

Provides links to professional organizations, government sites, journals, news, employment offerings in the field, etc.

Health-related statistics

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Statistics and Data

http://www.cms.hhs.gov/home/rsds.asp

Provides information on numerous health care topics, especially Medicare and Medicaid. Agency was formerly the Health Care Financing Administration.

Healthcare Cost & Utilization Project (HCUP)

http://www.ahrq.gov/data/hcup/

A family of health care databases developed through a Federal-State-Industry partnership and sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) to bring together the data collection efforts of State data organizations, hospital associations, private data organizations, and the Federal government to create a national information resource of patient-level health care data .

National Center for Health Statistics

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/Default.htm

Excellent source for publications, statistical tables, news releases, and fact sheets on popular health topics. Also includes links to other health-related sites.

Associations, agencies, etc.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

http://www.ahrq.gov/

American Hospital Assocation

http://www.hospitalconnectsearch.com/

American Medical Association

http://www.ama-assn.org/

Kaiser Family Foundation

http://www.kff.org/

"The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation is a non-profit, private operating foundation focusing on the major health care issues facing the nation. The Foundation is an independent voice and source of facts and analysis for policymakers, the media, the health care community, and the general public."

National Institute for Health Care Management

http://www.nihcm.org/

National Institutes of Health

http://www.nih.gov/

National Library of Medicine

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/