http://www.cms.gov This web site is for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services, which administers Medicare, Medicaid, CHIP (Children's Health Insurance
Program), and HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act). The
reimbursement rates, methodologies, and trends can all be found here.

http://www.hhsc.state.tx.us This web site is for the Texas Health and Human
Services Commission which administers the Medicaid program as well as the State
Childrens Health Insurance Program.

http://www.ebri.org This web site is for the Employer's Benefit Research
Institute. This organization analyzes insurance and coverage by private employers.

http://www.ahip.org/ This web site is for the Health Insurance Association of
America. It presents items from the insurer's perspective, including new initiatives
to reduce fraud which, from their prospective, includes the practice of balance
billing.

http://www.kff.org This web site is for the Kaiser Family Foundation. It contains
primers on subjects such as Medicare, Medicaid, Community Health Centers, etc..
One can also sign up for a daily health policy update.

http://cmwf.org This web site is for the Commonwealth Fund which provides a
large number of studies and analyses of issues related to medical care coverage,
finance, and organization.

http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/6583.html : This is a press
release from the AMA announcing that the President signed the appropriations
bill. It included a 1.6% increase in physician reimbursement for 2003
ratherthan a decrease. This increase is important because an additional $54
billion willbe spent by the federal government for physician services through the
Medicare program over the next ten years, according to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB).

http://www.hlth.gov.bc.ca/pcb/app.html The Ministry of Health
Services in British Columbia presents possible alternative methods of reimbursing
physicians in the Canadian national health system.