Oct. 17, 2011

1. What Does 2012 Hold for Physician-Hospital Relationships?.     

2. Physicians as Valued Partners:  Q&A With Catholic Health Initiatives CMO Dr. Stephen Moore.     

3. Illinois Review Board Approves Provena, Resurrection Merger & 12 More Recent Hospital Transactions, Affiliations. 

4. Upcoming Webinar! Becker's Hospital Review's Health System CEO Webinar - The State of the Industry; Clear Strategies for 2012 (Tue., Nov. 8, 2011, 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM CST) -- sponsored by MedAssets. To register for this webinar, .   

5. Inconsistent CMS Pilots Leave Hospitals Feeling Swamped.

6. Beth Israel Physicians: Stop Calling Patients "Consumers".       

7. Medicaid Patients Think Medical Homes Are Places to "Go to Die.       

8. Northwestern University Cardiologist Claims Dismissal Due to Whistleblower Attempt.    

9. Mercy Plans $4.6B Investment Plan Across Missouri.       

10. Calif. Gov. Vetoes Bill to Requiring New Licenses for Healthcare Facilities With Ownership Changes.    

11. Speakers Sought - Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting (May 17-18, 2012). We are down to the final speaking spots for the Annual Meeting agenda to be held next May. With the terrific help of Chuck Lauer, the co-chair of the conference, we expect to have many great CEOs as speakers. The conference should provide a great sense of the issues facing healthcare leaders.   We are seeking speakers and topics to strengthen the agenda in the following areas and looking for suggestions:

A. The current use of PHOs and ACOs. On ACOs, we have a terrific panel. We need two additional speakers from health systems to round out the panel. We would also like to add a panel on best practices for PHOs with real world stories of successful PHOs.

B. The agenda is CEO and CFO centric. We are seeking one to two more subjects focused very specifically on CFOs and CMOs.

If you have suggestions, please contact Scott Becker at sbecker@beckershealthcare.com.

Visit our other publications: Becker's ASC Review & Becker's Orthopedic Spine Review.    

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. How the Best Managers Use Recognition to Accelerate Performance - Adrian Gostick, Author and Global Thought Leader on Workplace Strategy 

2. The View From Washington: Politics, Healthcare Reform and the 2012 Election - Sam Donaldson, ABC News Veteran 

3. The Best Ideas to Improve Volume and Profits - Bryan Zowin, President, Physician Advantage, John C. Steinmann, MD,Renovis Surgical Technologies, Robin Fowler, MD, Executive Director and Owner, Interventional Management Services, and Keith Metz, MD 

4. Key Concepts to Fixing Physician Hospital Joint Ventures Gone South - Brent W. Lambert, MD, Principal & Founder, and Luke Lambert, CEO, ASCOA 

5. Managed Care Negotiation Strategies - Naya Kehayes, CEO & Managing Principal, and Matt Kilton, Principal and COO, EVEIA HEALTH Consulting and Management

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

35 Companies To Know 

1. Medical Facilities Corp.:  

www.medicalfacilitiescorp.ca  

2. ASCOA: 

3. VMG Health:
gregk@vmghealth.com
osullivan@vmghealth.com; 

4. Paragon Health:  
www.paragonhlth.com  

5. Point B:

www.pointb.com  

6. Surgical Directions: www.surgicaldirections.com  

7. Objective Health:

www.objectivehealth.com 

8. Surgical Care Affiliates: joseph.clark@scasurgery.com   www.scasurgery.com    

9. TeamHealth:
www.teamhealth.com 

10. Radisphere:

11. NPAS:   

12. GE:

www.ge.com  

13. Cogent Healthcare:  

www.cogenthealthcare.com

32. SDI:  

www.sdihealth.com   

33. Lawson:  

34. TeleTracking:
amie-podolak@teletracking.com;
www.teletracking.com 

35. athenahealth: 
www.athenahealth.com