About Us
ASC Communications is the leading source of cutting edge business and legal information for hospital and health system leaders, owners and operators of ambulatory surgery centers and leaders of orthopedic and spine practices. ASC Communications takes advantage of multiple channels to reach these decision-makers of the hospital and outpatient surgical community, including: print magazines (Becker's Hospital Review, Becker's ASC Review and Becker's Spine Review); two industry-leading ASC conferences and a new hospital and health system conference; regularly delivered e-newsletters; as well as www.BeckersHospitalReview.com, www.BeckersASC.com, www.BeckersOrthopedicandSpine.com and a variety of webinars and teleconferences.
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Publications
Becker's Hospital Review. Becker's Hospital Review features up-to-date business and legal news and analysis relating to hospitals and health systems. Our content is geared toward high-level hospital leaders, and we work to provide valuable content, including hospital and health system news, best practices and legal guidance specifically for these decision-makers. Each of the nine annual issues of Becker's Hospital Review reaches approximately 18,500 people, primarily acute-care hospital CEOs and CFOs.
Becker's ASC Review. Becker's ASC Review features general business, legal and clinical guidance on topics including joint-ventures, development and expansion, and regulatory and compliance issues; as well as analysis and insight for specialties including bariatrics, orthopedics/spine, gastroenterology, neurosurgery, pain management, ophthalmology, ENT and anesthesiology. Each of the nine annual issues of the publication reaches a qualified audience of more than 25,000 key business decision-holders, including surgeons, medical directors, directors of surgery, ASC administrators and others involved in the rapidly growing field of outpatient surgery. Further, every ASC in the nation receives Becker's ASC Review.
Becker's Orthopedic & Spine Review. Becker's Orthopedic & Spine Review features news and analysis on business and legal issues relating to orthopedic and spine practices. Each issue of the quarterly publication reaches an audience of 12,500 key ASC-industry orthopedic and spine practice decision-makers including orthopedic and sports medicine physicians and surgeons and spine practice administrators.
E-Weeklies
Becker's Hospital Review E-Weekly. This e-newsletter is distributed three times per week. It provides a round-up of the most relevant business and legal news affecting hospitals and health systems. Each issue also includes links to Becker's Hospital Review's most popular feature articles from the past week, including popular "people to know" and "hospitals to know" lists. If there’s news that matters to hospitals and health systems, it’s sure to be found in Becker's Hospital Review E-Weekly.
Becker's Hospital Review CFO Report E-Weekly. This twice weekly e-newsletter offers hospital and health system chief financial officers the latest financial statistics, news and guidance as it relates to the healthcare industry. Each issue provides links to numerous stories on hospital operations and profits; capital expenditures and funding sources; coding, billing and claims; the conversion to ICD-10; Medicare and Medicaid recovery audit contractors; and payor news. The e-newsletter is also distributed to revenue cycle specialists, including directors of revenue cycle, revenue cycle managers, coders and billers and claims processors, among others.
Becker's ASC Review E-Weekly. Three times a week, this weekly e-newsletter provides a round-up of the most relevant industry business and legal news affecting the outpatient surgery industry. Each issues provides links to both news and analysis as well as Becker's ASC Review's most popular feature articles, including popular "people to know" and "ASCs to know" lists. When business, legal and regulatory news breaks, it's sure to be reported in the Becker's ASC Review E-weekly.
Becker's Quality & Infection Control E-weekly. This weekly e-newsletter, delivered twice a week, provides guidance and news analysis on quality, patient safety, infection control and accreditation. Each issue is distributed to approximately 15,000 chief medical officers, chief nursing offices, directors of nursing and other infection control, quality and patient safety specialists.
Becker's Orthopedic Review E-Weekly. This e-newsletter, delivered twice a week, provides a round-up of the most relevant business and legal news affecting orthopedic physicians and practice administrators. The newsletter also includes summaries of recent orthopedic research, surgeon news updates and announcements from orthopedic device companies. Each issue is filled with industry trends from the past week, business and legal guidance as well as Becker's Orthopedic & Spine Review's most popular feature articles. You'll find the most up-to-date information about orthopedic surgeons and industry news delivered to your inbox with Becker's Orthopedic & Spine Review E-Weekly.
Becker's Spine Business Review E-Weekly. This weekly e-newsletter focuses on covering both inpatient and outpatient spine surgery trends. It regularly features columns with top spine surgeons as well as summaries of spine research, new devices, minimally invasive spine surgery technique and general trends in spine care. Each issue is distributed to more than 16,000 spine surgeons and spine program administrators.
Becker's Pain Management Review E-Weekly. This weekly e-newsletter features the most relevant news affecting pain management physicians and practices today. This resource also offers business and legal insights, provided by the industry's most renowned pain management physicians and experts. Those who subscribe to the e-newsletter will also enjoy the latest updates on devices, clinical research and industry trends.
Conferences
Hospital and Health Systems Annual Meeting. The Becker's Hospital Review Hospitals and Health Systems Annual Meeting occurs each spring in Chicago. The 2012 conference, scheduled for May 17-18 at Hotel Allegro, will feature industry leaders speaking on key business issues for hospitals and health systems.
ASC Conferences. ASC Communications also hosts two conference in Chicago, one in October that focuses on ASC development and profits, and one in June the focuses on orthopedics, spine, neurosurgery and pain management in ASCs. Each event offers CME credits and brings 500-600 attendees, including physicians who either own surgery centers or are considering developing or investing in surgery centers. In addition, numerous companies take advantage of exhibiting and sponsorship opportunities. With these conferences, ASC Communications provides the ideal opportunity for CEOs and the senior leadership of the largest and most successful ASC companies to come together with surgeons, administrators and owners of ASCs.
Websites
ASC Communication's Web sites, www.BeckersASC.com, www.BeckersHospitalReview.com and www.BeckersOrthopedicandSpine.com, are a one-stop shop for information for ASCs, hospitals and health systems and orthopedic and spine practices. The sites feature archived issues of Becker's ASC Review, Becker's Hospital Review and Becker's Orthopedic & Spine Review, archived E-Weeklies, conference brochures, white papers authored by expert sources and breaking business and legal news relevant to the healthcare community. Each website also includes specialty channels, which provide more in-depth coverage into critical topics such as legal and regulatory issues, valuation, anesthesia, specialties and more. They are a key resource for healthcare leaders who want to have all that ASC Communications offers at their fingertips.
Webinars
Industry experts present on a wide variety of healthcare management topics, providing insiders' views of what it takes to succeed as a hospital or ASC across a wide variety of specialties and regarding any number of regulatory and clinical issues. The flexible formats mean fresh content for attendees, who can join the educational sessions without leaving the comfort of their facilities.
Each of ASC Communications' publications — Becker's Hospital Review, Becker's ASC Review, and Becker's Orthopedic and Spine Review — offer specific webinars that are most relevant to those in the hospital industry, ASC industry and orthopedic/spine industry, respectively.
Becker's Hospital Review, Becker's ASC Review and Becker's and Orthopedic and Spine Review publish a number of lists of outstanding facilities and individuals throughout the year. These lists include the 100 Great Places to Work in Healthcare, the 50 Great Hospitals and the 30 Most Powerful People in Healthcare, as well as a variety of lists on outstanding physicians, healthcare leaders, hospitals and surgery centers.
Some lists include a nomination process, a period of time in which members of the healthcare community can nominate individuals or organizations for consideration. Those nomination processes are publicized through the e-weekly newsletter of the appropriate publication. For example, the nomination process for Women Hospital & Healthcare Leaders is publicized through the Becker's Hospital Review e-weekly newsletter, while the nomination process for Women to Know in the ASC Industry is publicized through the Becker's ASC Review e-weekly newsletter.
Other lists — for example, 50 Great Hospitals, 50 Great Community Hospitals and 30 Most Powerful People in Healthcare — are compiled through a lengthy research and review process. The editorial team starts a master list of facilities or individuals based on national rankings or original research. The lists compiled without a nomination process are essentially considered "lists of lists," which highlight institutions or individuals that are consistently lauded by other industry ranking companies.
Each list — both those with a nomination process and those without — is vetted through a panel of industry experts. These experts provide feedback on the chosen entries and note any oversights prior to publication. Each list is published on the appropriate publication website, and some lists are also included in the print publication.
Leadership
Scott Becker, JD, CPA.
Publisher
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Mr. Becker is the publisher of Becker's ASC Review, Becker's Hospital Review and Becker's Orthopedic & Spine Review. As a partner at McGuireWoods in Chicago, he provides counsel to hospitals, ASCs, surgical hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, single- and multi-specialty medical practices and a variety of healthcare industry entrepreneurs. Mr. Becker received his JD from Harvard Law School and his BS in finance and accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Jessica Cole
President & CEO
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As president & CEO, Jessica is oversees strategic growth, business development and operations for ASC Communications. She has more than nine years of sales, event and marketing experience in different roles. A native of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, she graduated from the University of Iowa with a BS in Marketing and Management. Jessica currently serves on volunteer boards for both Children's Memorial Hospital and Best Buddies Chicago in various leadership capacities.
Lindsey Dunn
Editor in Chief, Becker's Hospital Review
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Lindsey oversees the editorial direction of Becker's Hospital Review, including its print issues, E-Weeklies and Web site. Lindsey holds a BA and MA in Communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining ASC Communications, she worked at public relations firm Edelman and as an instructor in the communication department at the University of Illinois.
Laura Miller
Editor in Chief, Becker's ASC Review, Becker's Spine Review
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Laura oversees the editorial direction of Becker's Spine Review, including web content, print editions and E-weeklies. She also has editorial responsibilities for Becker's ASC Review web content, print editions and E-Weeklies. Laura graduated with a BA in creative writing from Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., and has previous experience writing for the Galesburg Register-Mail.
Staff
Editor in Chief, Becker's Hospital Review
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Twitter: @LindseySaaren
Molly Gamble
Associate Editor, Becker's Hospital Review
Management & Administration; Stark, Antikickback & False Claims
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Twitter: @mollygamblehr
Helen Gregg
Writer/Reporter, Becker's Hospital Review
Leadership & Executive Moves, Centers of Excellence, Key Specialties, Quality
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Bob Herman
Associate Editor, Becker's Hospital Review
Hospital Finance, Revenue Cycle & Payors, ICD-10, Compensation
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Twitter: @BHR_BobHerman
Heather Linder
Assistant Editor, Becker's ASC Review, Becker's Spine Review
Coding/billing/collections, Anesthesia, Spine, Orthopedic & Spine Devices
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Jim McLaughlin
Writer/Reporter, Becker's Hospital Review
Medicare/Medicaid, Payors
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Editor in Chief, Becker's ASC Review, Becker's Spine Review
Transactions/Valuation, ASC Turnarounds, Accreditation
Improving Practice Profits, Sports Medicine
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Twitter: @LauraMiller19
Heather Punke
Assistant Editor, Becker's Hospital Review
Executive Moves, Hospital-Physician Relationships, ACOs
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Associate Editor, Becker's Hospital Review
Hospital Quality, Service Lines & Centers of Excellence, Capacity Management, Strategic Planning
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Twitter: @SabrinaRodak
Sales/Advertising
Please contact Jessica Cole, President and CEO, for all advertising and other inquiries.
Conferences/Events
Please contact Cathy Brett, Conference Manager, for all conference- and event-related inquiries.
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Disclaimer: ASC Communications' publishes a variety of favorable news pieces and lists featuring individual physicians, hospitals, medical practices and other healthcare providers. While ASC Communications often recognizes physicians and organizations for various reasons, ASC Communications does not endorse any individual's or organization's clinical abilities.
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