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Improving the profitability of Your ASC – Thrive now and in the Future 101 great topics and 175 outstanding speakers 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. The Becker's ASC Review/ASC Communications difference: 1) Benefit from the combined efforts of Becker's ASC Review/ASC Com- munications to attract attendees and speakers that are among the smart- est people in the ASC industry today. 2) Take discussion and thinking to the highest levels, focusing on the physician-owners, medical directors, ASC administrators and business minded directors of nursing. 3) Access expert views from all sides of the ASC world. • 30 Great Surgeons, 36 Leading Ad- ministrators and 80 Surgery Center Speakers in Total • Keynote Speakers Terry Bradshaw, Lolo Jones and Bill Taylor • The Best ASC Business and Clinical Conference Ever • Register by Sept. 1st Thursday October 23, 2014 11:30am – 1:00pm Registration 1:00pm – 5:30pm Conference Sessions 5:30pm – 7:00pm Reception, Cash Raffles, Exhibit Hall Friday October 24, 2014 7:00am – 8:00am Continental Breakfast and Registration 8:00am – 5:00pm Conference Sessions Including Lunch and Exhibit Hall Breaks 5:00pm – 6:00pm Reception, Cash Raffles, Exhibit Hall Saturday October 25, 2014 7:10am – 8:10am Continental Breakfast 8:10am – 11:50pm Conference Sessions pROgRAm SChEdULE Thursday, October 23, 2014 1:30 – 4:30 pm Registration and Exhibitor Set up Concurrent Sessions Track A - Improving profits, State of the Union for ASCs, keynotes Track B - Anesthesia, Financial Issues and Entrepreneurship Track C - physician hospital Alignment and Specialty Issues Track d - Revenue Cycle, Billing and Coding and Issues Track E - Transactions and Valuation Issues Track F - patient Safety, Quality and Accreditation Issues 1:00 – 1:40 pm A. keys to keeping Surgery Centers a profit- able Business John A. Gol, Executive Director of Finance, Borland-Groover Clinic, Stephen Blake, JD, MBA, CPA, Chief Executive Officer, Central Park Surgery Center, Seth M. Silver, MD, Medical Director and President, The Ambulatory Care Center, PA, Robert Zasa, MSHHA, FACMPE, Managing Partner and Founder, ASD Management, Moderated by Amber McGraw Walsh, JD, Partner, McGuireWoods LLP B. The Future of Anesthesia in ASCs and key Issues Facing Anesthesia Tony Mira, President and Chief Executive Officer, Anesthesia Business Consultants, Steven A. Gunderson, DO, Chief Executive Officer and Medical Director, Rockford (Ill.) Ambulatory Surgery Center, Stanford Plavin, MD, Anesthesiologist, Ambulatory Anesthesia of Atlanta/Savannah, Moderated by Scott Becker, JD, CPA, Publisher, Becker's Healthcare; Chairman, McGuire Woods, LLP Healthcare Department C. Regional market Strategies for pain management Robin Fowler, MD, Chairman and Medical Director, Interventional Management Services, Stephen Rosenbaum, Chief Executive Officer, Interventional Management Services d. 5 Big Out of network Ideas debunked John Bartos, JD, Chief Executive Officer, Collect RX E. ASC Roundtable: Outlook for Investment and m&A Activity in the ASC Sector Matthew Searles, Managing Director, Merritt Healthcare, Tim Baker, President, Principle Valuation, Michael Weaver, Managing Director, Tenet Healthcare, Danny Bundren, Vice President, Acquisitions and Development, Symbion Healthcare, Moderated by Barton Walker, JD, Partner, McGuireWoods LLP F. Credentialing is Critical Sharon Kimbrough, CPCS, CPMSM, Manager, Medical Staff Services and Credentialing, Surgical Care Affiliates 1:45 – 2:20 pm A. The movement of Spine and higher Acuity Cases to ASCs: Why? how? What has to Be done? Kenny Hancock, President and Chief Development Officer, Meridian Surgical Partners B. Insights Into the mind of Younger Surgeons from a Young Entrepreneurial physician - Bridging the generational divide Arvind Movva, MD, Chief Executive Officer, Heartland Clinic C. Turning an ASC into a hOpd: When? Why? how to do It? Vivek Taparia, Director of Operations, and Paul Skowron, Senior Vice President, Operations, Regent Surgical Health d. Turning Around an Under performing ASC Tracey Erbert, President and Chief Executive Officer, Jocelyn Gaddie, Vice President Business Development and Summer Phillips, Consulting and Compliance Manager, In2itive Business Solutions E. key Trends in Valuing practice and ASC Acquisitions Aaron Murski, Senior Manager, VMG Health To Register, Call 800-417-2035 • Fax 866-678-5755 • Email registration@beckershealthcare.com Register Online at https://www.regonline.com/21stAnnualASC