Becker's Hospital Review Annual Meeting — ACOs, Physician-Hospital Integration, Improving Profits and Key Specialties
May 17-18, 2012; ChicagoHotel Allegro Chicago
This exclusive conference brings together hospital business and strategy leaders to discuss how to improve hospital and health systems in these challenging but opportunity-filled times.
The best minds in the field will discuss opportunities and provide practical and immediately useful guidance on ACOs, physician-hospital integration, improving profitability and key specialties.
Highlights include:
- 124 Speakers, 74 Sessions
- More than 40 C-Suite Hospital and Health System Speakers
- Outstanding Keynote Speakers: Mike Ditka, Bob Woodward, Suzy Welch
- Co-Chaired by Scott Becker and Chuck Lauer
To register for this meeting, call 800-417-2035, e-mail registration@beckershospital.com or visit www.beckershospitalreview.com/2012meeting
To download the 2012 Becker's Hospital Review Exhibitor/Sponsor Prospectus, click here.
2012 Becker's Hospital Review Online Syllabus, sponsored by
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Since 1985, Kaufman Hall has been a leading advisor to healthcare providers, delivering actionable insight to aid their decision making and manage their organization. We provide independent, data-driven advice and advanced software tools to assist with integrated strategic and financial planning, physician integration, capital allocation, budgeting and cost management, capital structure management, and partnership development. To learn more, please visit www.kaufmanhall.com.
Thank you to our conference sponsors!
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VMG Health (Corporate Partner)VMG Health is recognized by leading health systems, hospitals, attorneys and investors as the most trusted fair market valuation and transaction advisory firm in the U.S. At VMG Health a unique understanding of the relationships, requirements and business issues that surround healthcare today is offered to provide valuations regarding physician/hospital transactions, acquisitions and divestitures, professional service agreements, real estate transactions or purchase price allocations.
Jarrard (Corporate Partner)Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock, Inc. is a national healthcare public affairs firm singularly focused on helping the leaders of today's healthcare organizations use the tools of politics and communications to win their strategic goals during times of challenge or change. For more information, visit www.jarrardinc.com.
Wells Fargo Equipment Finance (Corporate Partner)Wells Fargo Equipment Finance, Inc. has the expertise, products and services to develop a financing solution customized for your business. A Leading provider of equipment finance solutions, Wells Fargo is the 2nd largest bank-affiliated equipment finance provider in the United States, has over 44,000 active customers and 850+ team members, has coverage in all 50 states and Canada, has deep expertise with numerous asset types including manufacturing, machine tools, transportation, medical, aircraft and other essential-use equipment.
Radisphere (Sponsor: Mike Ditka Keynote)Radisphere is a top-five radiology group serving more than 30 community hospitals in 11 states. With community-based radiologists supported by the largest remote network of subspecialists in the United States, Radisphere brings a standards-based model that improves quality and physician satisfaction, lowers cost and drives growth.
Principle Valuation (Sponsor: Suzy Welch Keynote Panel)Principle Valuation, LLC is an independent firm specializing in the valuation of hospitals, physician practices, senior living and related entities. Our professionals are known for their personal integrity and are highly respected in the healthcare and senior living industries. Valuations are performed for allocation of purchase price, impairment, financing, and tax related issues to name a few. Our goal is to provide the most accurate, objective, and fair valuations possible and take both great personal and professional pride in doing so. Our values are based upon in depth knowledge of the operations of healthcare, senior living, and other facilities. Our professionals are knowledgeable in real estate, business enterprise, equipment, and building cost issues such as segregated cost and facility life studies.
TeamHealth (Sponsor: Thursday Reception)TeamHealth was founded in 1979 and has become one of the largest suppliers of outsourced healthcare professional staffing and administrative services to hospitals and other healthcare providers in the United States. TeamHealth's more than 6,900 affiliated healthcare professionals provide emergency medicine, hospital medicine, anesthesia, urgent care, and pediatric staffing and management services to approximately 700 civilian and military hospitals, clinics, and physician groups in 46 states.
Healthcare Payment Specialists (Sponsor: Thursday Cocktail Reception)
Since 2002, HPS has emerged as a Medicare reimbursement solutions and compliance expert, leveraging distinct advantages in the areas of Bad Debt, Shadow Billing Compliance, DSH, and Post-Acute Care Transfer Services. We exercise proven expertise, cutting-edge automation, and total accountability to improve the operational and financial integrity of our hospital partners. Expertise means we have longstanding relationships with Medicare auditors in place to enhance our hospital partners’ experience with billing and cost reporting processes. We put our relationships to work for you. Automation means our solutions take the guess work out of your information management. From initial preparation to retrospective reviews, we perform comprehensive research and offer superior data channeling capabilities that simplify the exchange and recovery processes. Total Accountability means our hospital partners have readily available access to the subject matter experts who manage their portfolio. We deliver solutions in-house and provide fully accountable audit support for every project, every time. HPS. Helping you get the most out of Medicare.
INNOVA CONNECT (Sponsor: Thursday Luncheon)INNOVA CONNECT is a service of INNOVA Health Solutions LLC, offering data integration and health care informatics to hospitals and health care systems nationwide. As a socially involved leader, we prepare our clients to meet the challenges of a changing health care environment, including transformations toward Patient-Centered Medical Homes, Accountable Care Organizations, and Pay-for-Performance models. Our experts possess unparalleled understanding of how to implement practical and actionable solutions and our collaborative, hands-on approach and willingness to go at-risk distinguish us in our market.
Life Line Screening (Sponsor: Thursday Luncheon)Life Line Screening (LLS) is a leading provider of community-based preventive health screenings in the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia. Since inception in 1993, LLS has screened over 7 million people, and currently screens about 1 million people each year at more than 15,000 screening events. In addition, Life Line Screening maintains a large and growing list of hospital and health care system sponsors. Currently working with more than 160 hospitals in 48 states, Life Line Screening’s services include detection of heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis, liver, and kidney conditions. For more information, please visit: www.lifelinescreening.com
Silver-Level Sponsors
MedeAnalytics (Sponsor: USB Drives)MedeAnalytics delivers performance management solutions across the healthcare system – including hospitals, physician practices and payers – to ensure accountability and improve financial, operational and clinical outcomes.
Sheridan Healthcare (Sponsor: Tote Bags)Sheridan Healthcare, Inc. is a leading national hospital-based, multispecialty practice management company that provides comprehensive service-line management for Anesthesia, Radiology, Emergency Medicine, and Neonatology and other Pediatric Subspecialties. Sheridan, its subsidiaries, and affiliates currently operate in 20 states and employ over 1,600 providers. We take pride in delivering quality care and in partnering with our client hospitals and medical colleagues to grow practices in ways that proves beneficial to all.
Lovell Communications, Inc. (Sponsor: Conference At A Glance)Lovell Communications has provided strategic communications, marketing support and crisis communications management to 2,000+ healthcare providers and healthcare-related companies over the last two decades. Their experience touches nearly every area of healthcare including hospitals, academic medical centers, LTACs, nursing homes and rehab facilities, behavioral health centers, biotechnology and pharma companies, healthcare trade associations, national accreditation organizations, managed care organizations, home health and hospice providers, ambulatory surgery centers, medical devices, healthcare IT, social service agencies, revenue enhancement companies, disease management and physician practices. In addition to award-winning marketing, brand reputation and sales-oriented programs, Lovell Communications has helped businesses in nearly every sector of the healthcare industry successfully navigate issues concerning managed care, government reimbursement, The Joint Commission, quality and regulatory agencies, fraud & abuse, compliance, labor relations, bankruptcies and receiverships, community tax referendums, payor mix and physician referral paths.
Eveia Health Consulting & Management (Sponsor: Conference at a Glance)
As experts in business operations analysis and reimbursement methodologies, Eveia Health Consulting & Management specializes in ASC and surgical contract negotiations and serves as a Managed Care Contracting Manager to its clients. Naya Kehayes, MPH, is the founder and managing member of Eveia Health Consulting & Management. For more information, please visit www.eveia.com.
HealthTrust Purchasing Group (Sponsor: Lanyards)
HealthTrust Purchasing Group supports nearly 1,400 acute care facilities, ambulatory surgery centers, physician practices and alternate care sites. With members’ annual purchasing volume of $19 billion+, it is committed to obtaining the best price for clinically recommended products and continuously evaluating and improving its services to patients, physicians and clinicians.
Origin Healthcare Solutions (Sponsor: Aluminum Sports Bottle)
Origin Healthcare Solutions is a leading provider of revenue cycle management and business and clinical intelligence solutions that have demonstrated repeated success in optimizing financial and clinical performance and workflow efficiency for healthcare organizations of all sizes. Let our experience work for you.
InQuicker (Sponsor: Cyber Cafe)InQuicker is the first company to offer an online waiting room so patients can skip the waiting room at the ER, Urgent Care Center, and Doctor's Office. InQuicker drives increased patient satisfaction, net new patients, reduced length of stay, and lowered LWBS rates for over 140 partners in 21 states. Please visit www.inquicker.com for more information about InQuicker.
Symbion Healthcare (Sponsor: Bottled water)
Symbion is a leading operator of short-stay surgical facilities. Through its ambulatory surgery centers and surgical hospitals, Symbion provides patients with high-quality surgical services across a number of specialties while delivering exceptional value to its physician and hospital partners. Symbion's network has grown to include more than 63 short-stay surgical facilities across 27 states. In each of its locations, the company works to create a highly efficient, quality-focused environment designed around the needs of both patients and physicians.
Halley Consulting Group (Sponsor: Thursday PM Networking Break)The Halley Consulting Group is a physician practice management and consulting firm specializing in the strategic development and performance turnaround of both hospital-owned medical practice networks and large independent medical offices. Halley Consulting works with clients nationwide, including health systems and individual hospitals that own medical practice networks, as well as private practice physicians. They provide services through traditional consulting arrangements and interim management contracts. The firm has served physician groups as small as 10 providers and health systems with up to 800 providers of varying specialties all across the United States. Hospital-owned networks employing several hundred providers use the Halley Consulting financial and statistical model as the basis for their management decisions and performance improvement efforts.
Kaufman Hall (Sponsor: Online Syllabus)
Since 1985, Kaufman Hall has been a leading advisor to healthcare providers, delivering actionable insight to aid their decision making and manage their organization. We provide independent, data-driven advice and advanced software tools to assist with integrated strategic and financial planning, physician integration, capital allocation, budgeting and cost management, capital structure management, and partnership development. To learn more, please visit www.kaufmanhall.com.
Vantiv (Sponsor: Mobile Phone Charging Station)
Vantiv is a leading provider of payment processing strategies and technology solutions. We'll work with you to develop programs that help simplify payments, while focusing on new opportunities and revenue for your business. Our people, technologies, and partnerships are the Vantiv difference. Let's discuss your future success.
Healthcare Finance Group, LLC specializes in senior debt financing solutions to the middle market healthcare industry. HFG offers secured revolving credit facilities and cash flow term debt up to $150 million, with terms custom-tailored to each of our client's needs. Borrowers in the healthcare industry need a lender that understands their business and has the creativity and flexibility to provide financing solutions that integrate that understanding. HFG has the years of experience and strong balance sheet to make us the lender of choice for these companies.
Pinstripe (Sponsor: Friday Breakfast)
Pinstripe Healthcare is a division of one of the nation's leading recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) providers, Pinstripe Inc. Pinstripe Healthcare delivers customized solutions that help provider-side organizations align talent strategies to patient care measures by integrating unmatched expertise, refined processes, and exclusive, as well as best-in-class, technologies. Consistent with Pinstripe's brand promise "We Become You," dedicated healthcare recruitment teams act as an extension of the client's human resources function, providing a tailored candidate experience reflective of the its brand, values and culture.
VHA (Sponsor: Magazine Distribution Rack)VHA's mission remains the same: To consistently deliver expert guidance and solutions that drive exceptional performance for members.
You achieve results by engaging with VHA. However, results are just the beginning. Sustainable results come from strategic relationships that you have built with, and within, VHA. Through VHA, you can connect with peers, share insights, leverage resources and take advantage of innovative solutions – all to lower costs, advance operational performance and enhance patient care.
Duke Realty (Sponsor: Exclusive Developer)
Duke Realty owns and operates approximately 136 million rentable square feet of industrial and office assets, including medical offices, in 18 major U.S. cities. With more than 20 years in the industry, Duke Realty’s healthcare team offers proven experience in providing hospitals and physician groups comprehensive planning, development, ownership, leasing, and facility management services. Projects have ranged from small medical office buildings to large ambulatory care centers with diagnostics, oncology and surgery services.