July 6, 2011

1. 5 Best Practices for Aligning Physicians.  

2. HMA to Acquire Tennessee's Mercy Health Partners.      

3. Michigan's Trinity Health Officially Owns Loyola University Health System.   To view a list of 12 more hospital transactions, . 

4. Sign Up for the New Revenue Cycle E-Weekly. To receive the free Becker's Hospital Review Revenue Cycle E-Weekly, which launches this week,  .     

5. Hospital Marketing Goes Mobile: 4 Best Practices From Legacy Health.      

6. Johns Hopkins Cutting 160 Positions.    

7. Nurses File Complaint Against University of Michigan Health.       

8. 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, .  

9. Iasis's Phoenix-Area Hospitals to Pay $11.5M Over Breached Contract With Cardiac Specialist.  

10. Low Investment-Grade Hospitals Face Highest Borrowing Costs Since 2009.  

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

12. 10 Hospitals Undergoing Construction.    

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:

- 88 Sessions, 130 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. Cost Reduction & Benchmarking: 10 Key Steps to Immediately Improve Profits - Rob Westergard, CPA, CFO, Susan Kirzirian, COO, and Ann Geier, Vice President of Operations, ASCOA 

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

3. Anti Kickback and Stark Act Compliance: Common Issues for ASCs - Scott Becker, JD, CPA, Partner, McGuireWoods, and Lainey Gilmer, JD, McGuireWoods 

4. Accreditation 101: Everything You Need to Know About Accreditation - Bernard McDonnell, DO, Healthcare Facilities Accreditation Program  

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

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