Know of any? If so, maybe we should work up a list of them in the BenefitsLink "library" -- http://www.benefitsattorney.com/links/Bene...d_Associations/

OK Dave, I'll do my 5 min. worth of work:

Naturally, there's the Internet Healthcare Coalition;

Then there's the National Coalition on Healthcare ,

The National Business Coalition on Health ,

and
the Health Benefits Coalition.

The Coalition for Quality Patient Care is another.

Regionally, there's

The New York Business Group on Health,

The Washington Business Group on Health, and

The Pacific Business Group on Health, to name just three.

And let's not forget
The Employer Quality Partnership.


Few of these sites contain references to one another; perhaps someone will volunteer to make introductions?

Any way to 'bulk upload' this stuff to the library? I'm too slow a typist to deal with it myself.

[This message has been edited by Greg Judd (edited 09-23-1999).]

Dave:
Besides our own website http:www.hhco.org
I would recommend pulling the list of coalition websites from the National Business
Group on Health web page. It's listed under
Membership Information if I recall correctly.
They have one of the most extensive lists.
Jerry Custer

Dave:
Excuse me....its the National Business
Coalition on Health (NBCH) and they are linked to our web site.
Jerry Custer

Here's a couple additional coalition web sites...
Health Care Payers Coalition of New Jersey at http://www.hcpc.org/
Greater Detroit Area Health Council at http://www.gdahc.org/
Cooperative Health Network (Toledo, OH) at http://www.chnppo.com/

Thanks, Jerry -- it's sure hard to find on the NBCH site -- finally found it on the "Employer's Information" page at http://www.nbch.org/nbchemp.htm

Thanks Pete for your response. Two of the coalitions you mentioned are also linked through the National Business Coalition on Health (NBCH) web site. The Ohio coalition is not. NBCH currently has approximately 100
coalitions in their membership.....including ours.....and about 1/3 of those have web sites linked to the NBCH web site. There are however, some coalitions throughout the U.S. that are not members of NBCH.
Jerry Custer

That's right. At the IFEBP we have tended to focus our efforts on assisting coalitions with multiemployer(Taft-Hartley labor-management fund)members because the multiemployer funds are typically members of the IFEBP. There are about 22 we are aware of, and probably a few more we haven't heard from. They are largely a separate group from the NBCH members, although that isn't always the case. The New Jersey coalition is a good example of one that has a mix of multiemployer and single corporate members. The Detroit Area Health Council may be unique in the way that it serves as an umbrella group for affiliated corporate, public sector and multiemployer fund coalitions. These two are active with both the IFEBP and the NBCH, which are not in any way in competition with one another.

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Folks:
I know in Texas, a law was passed a few years ago, allowing coalitions.
These entities are considered as a single employer, and must be fully insured.
Is this law in Texas similar to your experiences with coalitions in other states?
Don Levit