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Hospital Review
October 2013
Editorial
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Vol. 2013 No. 10
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features
7
Publisher's Letter
16
Rising Stars: 25 Healthcare Leaders Under 40
19
How Ideas Become Innovations: Roundtable With Healthcare Innovation
Leaders From UCLA, Ohio State
Executive Briefing: Value-Based Contracting
22 The Time Is Now: 4 Steps to Help Providers Succeed in a Value-Based World
Special Focus on HIT & HIM
26
Learning From the Best: What HIM Looks Like at Geisinger, Intermountain
Clinical Integration & ACOs
28
Keys to Success as an ACO: Model Physician Relations Maintaining Entrepreneurial
Incentive and Self-Direction
29 Independent Physicians Slow to Accept ACOs, Survey Finds
29 Medicare ACO Growth Outpaces Commercial ACOs
Finance, Revenue Cycle & ICD-10
30 the Forefront: How Hospitals and Health Systems Can Be on the Cutting Edge With
At
Payers
32 S&P: Hospitals Had Stable 2012, But Financial Ratios Likely to Weaken in 2013
34 9 Major For-Profit Hospital Companies Record $600M in Quarterly Earnings
34 State Law Now Requires North Carolina Hospitals to Post Prices for 140 Procedures
34 OIG: Medicare Could Save Millions by Reassessing Critical Access Hospitals
36 Moody's: 132 Statistics on Nonprofit Hospital Medians
Executive Briefing: ICD-10
40 Preparing for ICD-10's Impact on Your Revenue Cycle
44
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Stop the Noise: How Hospitals Can Provide Physicians With Meaningful Feedback
46
Maximize the Contact Center and Bridge Patient Communication Gaps in a New
Healthcare Setting
49
Becker's Hospital Review 5th Annual Meeting Brochure
Hospital Transactions & Consolidation
62 Phoebe Putney Won't Have to Sell Palmyra Hospital in FTC Settlement
Executive Briefing: Post-Acute Care Strategy
63 9 Considerations for Developing a Long-Term Acute-Care Hospital
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Legal & Regulatory Issues
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67 Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Must Refund $538k
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67 Sacred Heart Hospital Paid $5.5M to Companies Owned by Former CEO
67 Northwestern University to Pay $2.9M to Settle False Claims Act Allegations Over
Cancer Research Funds
Executive Briefing: The Supply Chain as a Strategic Asset
69 Supply Chain's Role in Making or Breaking Hospitals' Margins,
The
Competitive Edge
72
Preparing for Health Exchanges:
14 Questions to Assess Your
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76
50 of the Greenest Hospitals in America
84
Chuck Lauer: Accountability
85
Hospital & Health System Executive Moves
85
Hospital & Health System Transactions
86
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