July 18, 2011

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1. 10 Predictions on the Future of Hospital Executive Compensation.       

2. Hospital Tax-Exempt Status: Considerations Regarding Maintaining Exempt Status.

3. Sophisticated and Powerful Consumers: How Transparency Will Change Hospitals.

4. Publisher's Letter.  

5. 24 Statistics on Hospital CEO, CFO Compensation.  

6. Register Today for the 18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference - Improving Profitability and Business and Legal Issues featuring keynote speakers Sam Donaldson, Adrian Gostick and Bill Walton (October 27-29; Chicago). To register or learn more, .   

7. 5 Trends Affecting the Future of Physician Compensation.

8. Trends in Physician-Generated Revenue From 2002-2010.    

9. 5 Trends Impacting Physician On-Call Compensation. 

10. Medical Directorship Compensation Varies Based on Specialty.

11. 100 Statistics on Physician Compensation.       

12. Upcoming Webinar: Guaranteed Resource Use: New Savings and New Revenues (Wednesday, July 20; 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CDT). To register for this free webinar, .     

13. 9 Leading Hospital CEOs Share Advice for Fellow Hospital Leaders.    

14. 65 Great Community Hospitals.  

15. 8 Out-of-the-Box Ways Hospitals Can Cut Costs.  

16. Growing Future Hospital Leaders: 6 Thoughts From Poudre Valley Health System CEO Rulon Stacey.  

17. As Interest in ACOs Wanes, It's Time to Do the 'Next Right Thing'.  

18. Chuck Lauer: What New Healthcare Leaders Should Know.  

19. Key Issues and Strategies for Physician Integration.  

20. Optimizing a Hospital-Physician Joint Venture: 4 Tips for a Culture of Partnership.

21. Essential Primer: Pioneer ACOs and Proposed Advance Payment Initiative

22. Study Shows ACO Start-Up Costs Can Soar Up to $26.1M.

23. Not Ready to Form an ACO? Three Value-Based Alternative Models.

24. 10 Stark, False Claims and Kickback Lawsuits Involving Hospitals and Health Systems.

25. 5 Questions to Determine if Your Independent Hospital Should Sell, Partner.
26. 5 Changes That Can Increase a Hospital's Value.

27. Why Hospitals Need to Start Getting Ready for ICD-10 Now.
28. 10 Recent Survey Findings About ICD-10.

29. AAPC Suggests 16 Steps for Successful ICD-10 Implementation.

30. Directory Lists Software for Physician ICD-10 Conversion.
31. Report: EMR Market Expected to Top $6B by 2015.

32. Proposed HIPAA Change Would Allow People to Learn Who Accessed Protected Health Information.

33. 17 States Launch Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs.

34. ONC Meaningful Use Workgroup Recommends Pushing Back Stage 2 for Those Attesting in 2011.

35. Running an Academic Medical Center: Q&A With Johnese Spisso, Chief Health System Officer of UW Medicine.

36. Academic Health and Hospital Operator Partnerships: Q&A With Dr. Bill Fulkerson and Bill Carpenter of Duke LifePoint Healthcare.

37. Quint Studer: Raising HCAHPS Is About More Than Better Service...It's About Better Quality.
38. Hospital & Health System Transactions.
39. Hospital & Health System Executive Moves.  

View all of these articles and download the issue.  

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18th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference: Improving Profitability & Business and Legal Issues

The Best Annual ASC Business, Legal and Clinical Conference

Oct. 27-29, 2011

Westin Michigan Avenue, Chicago

This exclusive conference brings together surgeons, administrators and ASC business and clinical leaders to discuss how to improve your ASC and its bottom line in these challenging but opportunity-filled times.

The best minds in the ASC field will discuss opportunities for ASCs plus provide practical and immediately useful guidance on how to bring in more cases; improve reimbursement; manage, reduce and benchmark costs; introduce new specialties; engineer a turnaround; work on joint-ventures with hospitals and much, much more.

Highlights include:

- 90 Sessions, 132 Speakers

- Great Keynote Speakers Including Bill Walton, Hall of Fame NBA Basketball  Player; Sam Donaldson, ABC News Veteran and former Chief White House Correspondent for ABC News; and Adrian Gostick, Author and Global Thought Leader on Workplace Strategy  

- Earn CME, CASC, CEU Credits

Here are just five of the outstanding presentations at the conference:  

1. 10 Statistics Your ASC Should Review Each Day, Week and Month and What to Do About Them - Reginal Robinson, Director, Peninsula Surgery Center

2.  How to Evaluate & Implement New Profitable Services Into an ASC - Robert Zasa, Founder, ASD Management, and Kenneth Austin, MD, Rockland Orthopedics and Sports Medicine 

3. Physician-Hospital Joint Ventures: How to Resolve Conflict and Keep the Venture Thriving - Dawn McLane, Regional VP, Health Inventures, Tom Yerden, CEO, TRY Healthcare Solutions   

4. Advanced Benchmarking of Financial and Clinical Results - John Goehle, CPA, Ambulatory Healthcare Strategies   

5. Determining the Exact Cost of a Procedure - Terry Woodback, CEO, Tulsa Spine & Specialty Hospital  

Register online by clicking here. You can also call (703) 836-5904 or e-mail registration@ascassociation.org .