Allied Technology - HEALTH PROGRAM & POLICY ANALYSIS
"Health Program and Policy Analysis provides experienced individuals who understand the complexities of the health care system. The Group specializes in providing a broad range of expert technical service."
http://www.alliedtech.com/research/health.html

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research
"AHCPR, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the lead agency charged with supporting research designed to improve the quality of health care, reduce its cost, and broaden access to essential services."
http://www.ahcpr.gov/about/overview.htm

The American Health Care Association
"(AHCA) is a federation of 50 state health organizations, together representing nearly 12,000 non-profit and for-profit assisted living, nursing facility, long term care, and subacute care providers that care for more than one million elderly and disabled individuals nationally."
http://www.ahca.org/

Assisted Living Federation of America
ALFA's website provides information for members, consumers, researchers, and others interested in assisted living.
http://www.alfa.org/

CHSRA
"The Center for Health Systems Research and Analysis (CHSRA) at the University of Wisconsin - Madison conducts research and develops decision support systems to improve long term care and health systems."
http://linear.chsra.wisc.edu/

DotCom Health
"This site was developed to provide you with easy access to information on healthcare providers and resources in your area."
http://www.dotcomhealth.com/

Federal Register
The Federal Register is the official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents.
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/aces/aces140.html

HCFA
Health Care Financing Administration(HCFA), the federal agency that administers the Medicare, Medicaidand ChildHealth Insurance Programs.
http://www.hcfa.gov/

HCFA MDS 2.0
Minimum Data Set 2.0 Technical Information Site
http://www.hcfa.gov/medicare/hsqb/mds20/

HCFA - NURSING HOME COMPARE
"Health Care Financing Administration's (HCFA) Nursing Home Database which contains information on every Medicare and Medicaid certified nursing home in the country. You can locate nursing homes in your area and find information about compliance with Medicare and Medicaid regulations."
http://www.medicare.gov/nursing/home.asp

HCFA - Sharing Innovations in Quality
"(SIQ) is a collaborative project of HCFA and State survey agencies, with consumer, professional, and industry representatives. Its goal is to collect and develop a repository of innovative ideas and professional standards/guidelines that are improving the quality of life and quality of care for residents in nursing homes."
http://www.hcfa.gov/medicaid/siq/siqhmpg.htm

HCFA SNF PROSPECTIVE PAYMENT SYSTEM
PPS technical information site.
http://www.hcfa.gov/medicare/snfpps.htm

Health AtoZ
"This Site has been developed by health care professionals. It includes a directory of more than 50,000 professionally-reviewed Internet resources, supportive online communities, and the HealthAtoZ Calendar."
http://www.healthatoz.com/

InfoMedical.COM
"The medical business search engine"
http://www.infomedical.com/

The Institute on Aging
"founded in 1978, serves as the focal point for Temple University's activities in the field of aging and provides a full range of education, service, information, dissemination, technical assistance and research."
http://www.temple.edu/aging/

Long Term Care
'You will find the latest information from HCFA on SNF Consolidated Billing and Prospective Payment.  LTC does it a little differently by giving you commentary on PPS, Consolidated Billing, ancillary contracting and management, billing issues, compliance and other important aspects of managing the Long Term Care facility.'
http://www.longtermcare.com/

Long Term Care Case Mix Advisor
"A resource provided by the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators - The Long Term Care Case Mix Advisor website and Case Mix Discussion Group exist to help nursing facility professionals cope with the sweeping changes being implemented for nursing facilities."
http://www.ltc-casemix.com/

Medicaid
"Medicaid is a jointly-funded, Federal-State health insurance program for certain low-income and needy people. It covers approximately 36 million individuals including children, the aged, blind, and/or disabled, and people who are eligible to receive federally assisted income maintenance payments."
http://www.hcfa.gov/medicaid/medicaid.htm

Medicare
HCFA, administers Medicare, the nation's largest health insurance program, which covers over 39 million Americans. Medicare provides health insurance to people age 65 and over, those who have permanent kidney failure, and certain people with disabilities.
http://www.hcfa.gov/medicare/medicare.htm

National Institute Of Aging
"The NIA promotes healthy aging by conducting and supporting biomedical, social, and behavioral research and public education."
http://www.nih.gov/nia/

New Jersey Association of Health Care Facilities' Web Site!
"The Health Care Association of New Jersey (HCANJ) is a non-profit, trade association dedicated to enhancing long term health care in our state. HCANJ provides leadership, advocacy, information and education to the broad range of providers, consumers, government agencies, and others which comprise the long term care community."
http://www.hcanj.org/

New Jersey Department of Human Services
"The New Jersey Department of Human Services (DHS) is the state's social services agency, serving more than one million of New Jersey's most vulnerable citizens or about one of every eight New Jersey residents. Among them are abused and neglected children; troubled youth and families; people with low income; and people who are mentally ill, developmentally disabled, blind, visually impaired, deaf and hard of hearing."
http://www.state.nj.us/humanservices

NJ Department of Health & Senior Services
"Our mission is to foster accessible and high-quality health and senior services to help all people in New Jersey achieve optimal health, dignity and independence. We work to prevent disease, promote and protect well-being at all life stages and encourage informed choices that enrich quality of life for individuals and communities."
http://www.state.nj.us/health/

New Jersey Legislature Home Page
"Since it first convened over 200 years ago, the Legislature has become more heterogeneous, more professional and more powerful. Recent changes in its structure together with larger, long-term political changes in the State have fostered the Legislature's evolution toward equal status as an independent branch of State government and its ability to effectively serve the diverse needs of the people of New Jersey."
http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/

Nova Care - Industry Issues
Informational resources on the Balanced Budget Act and PPS.
http://www.novacare.com/industry.htm

Social Security Administration
The official website of the Social Security Administration
http://www.ssa.gov/