From: Scott Becker <sbecker@beckershealthcare.com>
Subject: [Becker's Hospital Review] 5 Tips for Aligning Physicians Through Contracts | 13 Hospital Exec Moves | Experienced Physicians Linked to Higher Risk of Mortality | Q&A With UCLA's Dr. David Feinberg on Leadership |
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News & Analysis

July 20, 2011

 

1. Patient Experience: An Increasingly Critical Hospital Indicator
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2. A CEO Walks Into a Patient Room: Q&A With Dr. David Feinberg, CEO of UCLA Health System. Click Here

  

3. Study: Experienced Physicians Linked to Higher Risk of Mortality, Longer Length of Stay. Click Here

 

4. 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, Click Here.   

5. 5 Tips for Aligning Physicians Through Contracts. Click Here


6. 13 Hospital & Health System Executive Moves.  Click Here

 

7. Independent Hospital CEOs Beat Integrated Health System CEOs in Total Cash Compensation Increases.  Click Here  

   

8. Hospital Credit Downgrades Outpace Upgrades 4:1, Moody's Report Shows. Click Here

 

9. 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, Click Here .      

    

10. 10 ACOs to Know. Click Here

 

 

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

 

 

1. Managed Care Negotiation Strategies - Using Transparency and Case Data - Naya Kehayes, CEO & Managing Principal, and Matt Kilton, Principal and COO, EVEIA HEALTH Consulting and Management 

 

2. 10 Statistics Your ASC Should Review Each Day, Week and Month and What to Do About Them - Reginal Robinson, Director, Peninsula Surgery Center

 

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

 

4. 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   

 

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

 

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1. Physician-Hospital Relationships  & ACOs - sponsored by Regent Surgical Health
2. Compensation Issues
3.
Stark Act/Antikickback Statute/False Claims
4. Hospital Leadership & Executive Moves
5. Hospital Transactions & Valuation Issues- sponsored by VMG Health
6. Hospital Finance & Business News

8. Healthcare IT
9. OR Effeciency - sponsored by NAPA
10. Hospital Key Specialties - sponsored by Paragon Health
11. RACs/ICD-9/ICD-10
- sponsored by AHIMA
12. Quality & Patient Safety
13.
Anesthesia - sponsored by Somnia Anesthesia Services
30 Companies To Know
1. Surgical Care Affiliates: joseph.clark@scasurgery.com
www.scasurgery.com
2. Medical Facilities Corp.:
www.medicalfacilitiescorp.ca 
3. VMG Health:
gregk@vmghealth.com
osullivan@vmghealth.com;  
www.vmghealth.com
4. HealthCare Appraisers:  tmello@healthcareappraisers.com
www.healthcareappraisers.com
5. TeleTracking:
amie-podolak@teletracking.com;
www.teletracking.com
6. Surgical Directions:
www.surgicaldirections.com
7. TeamHealth:
www.teamhealth.com
8. Paragon Health:
www.paragonhlth.com  
9. ASCOA: 

www.ascoa.com
10. athenahealth: 
www.athenahealth.com
11. LexisNexis:
www.lexisnexis.com 
12. Premier:  
www.premierinc.com
13. MedeAnalytics:
marketing@medeanalytics.com
www.medeanalytics.com
14. Cejka Executive Search:
www.cejkasearch.com
15.
NPAS: 
www.npasweb.com
   
16. NAPA Anesthesia:
www.napaanesthesia.com
17.
Somnia Anesthesia:   
solutions@somniainc.com;
www.somniaanesthesiaservices.com
18. Radisphere:
www.radisphere.net
19. Healthcare Facilities  Accreditation Program: 
mshaver@hfap.org;
www.hfap.org
20.
Principle Valuation: tbaker@principlevaluation.com;
www.principlevaluation.com
21. HealthTrust Purchasing Group:
www.healthtrustpg.com
22. West Coast Medical:    
westcstmed@westcmr.com;
www.westcmr.com
23. Symbion: 
mweaver@symbion.com;
www.symbion.com
24. Pinnacle III:

www.pinnacleiii.com 
www.perfectserve.com
25. Lancaster Pollard:
www.lancasterpollard.com    
26. Cogent Healthcare:
www.cogenthealthcare.com
27. Wells Fargo Equipment Finance:
www.wellsfargo.com
28. Lawson:
www.lawson.com
29. People's Capital:   www.peoples.com  
30. CEP America:
www.cep.com 
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