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34 2015 YEAR REVIEW in pacting reimbursement, I had to get involved." Pamela Hess, CFO of Saint Thomas Midtown and Saint Thomas West hospitals in Nashville, Tenn., at the Becker's Hospital Re- view 6th Annual Meeting 24. "It's important to create an environment where people have the courage to ask, 'Are we are putting good money aer bad? Should we move on?' It's easy to talk about but harder to do, especially when you feel like your reputation is vested with the decisions." Sister Carol Keehan, president and CEO of Catholic Health Asso- ciation of the United States in Washington, D.C. 25. "I get a lot of satisfaction in helping eliminate red tape. at's what I love to do — eliminate red tape and kind of get through the very bureaucratic and fragmented state of health- care in this country today." Anthony Tersigni, EdD, president and CEO of Ascension in Ed- mundson, Mo. 26. "We see 15 percent of people who have no insurance and 60 percent of our patients have Medicaid. We want to build a cushion to be able to enhance our services just as facilities in more affluent areas do. It goes hand in hand with what I believe: ere shouldn't be levels of healthcare." Karen Teitelbaum, president and CEO of Sinai Health System in Chicago 27. "Set your sights on the next decade, not the next day. Don't get bogged down in every single crisis — you need to not only focus on the incoming, but moving ahead." Cecil Richards, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America & Planned Parenthood Action Fund in New York, on leading under pressure at Chicago Ideas Week 28. "e uneventfulness of the event so far speaks to the tre- mendous preparation and hard work by thousands of profes- sionals across the industry. We should be proud of them." Albert Oriol, CIO of Rady Children's Hospital in San Diego, on ICD-10 29. "e lack of a competitive health insurance market allows the few remaining companies to exploit their market power, dictate premium increases and pursue corporate policies that are contrary to patient interests. Health insurers have been unable to demonstrate that mergers create efficiency and low- er health insurance premiums." Steven Stack, MD, president of the American Medical Associa- tion 30. "Whether you are a patient, a provider, a business, a health plan or a taxpayer, it is in our common interest to build a healthcare system that delivers better care, spends healthcare dollars more wisely and results in health- ier people. Today's announcement is about improving the quality of care we receive when we are sick, while at the same time spending our healthcare dollars more wisely." HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell on the organization's goal to shift 50 percent of payments to value-based models by 2018 31. "ere are going to be strong critics of this. We just have to be ready for that." Peter Pronovost, MD, PhD, director of the Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality at Johns Hopkins University on bar- ring low-volume procedures in U.S. News & World Report 32. "Unlawful financial arrangements between healthcare providers and their referral sources raise concerns about phy- sician independence and objectivity. Patients are entitled to be sure that the care they receive is based on their actual medical needs rather than the financial interests of their physician." Benjamin Mizer, head of the U.S. Justice Department's Civil Divi- sion, in a statement on Adventist Health System's record-break- ing $118.7M settlement for improper physician compensation claims 33. "We have to get hospitals out of the business of hiring doctors." Michael Reilly, MD, whistle-blower physician, on improper finan- cial relationships with physicians across the country, in an inter- view with Kaiser Health News 34. "You are going to take some heat if you do it, but it prompts the medical community to provide more information to patients, and I think there is a hunger for it. Traffic on the database online has been a big affirmation." Marshall Allen, reporter at ProPublica in New York, on the Sur- geon Scorecard 35. "For the most part, when there's smoke, there's fire." Mark Wagar, president of Heritage Medical Systems in Northridge, Calif., about physicians who claim their patients are sicker when faced with poor performance results 36. "I want to personally apologize to each of you for what has happened, as I know you expect us to protect your informa- tion. We will continue to do everything in our power to make our systems and security processes better and more secure, and hope that we can earn back your trust and confidence in Anthem." Joseph Swedish, CEO of Anthem in Indianapolis, after it was breached 37. "What we're fearful of is healthcare being the new target because we have so much data to be accessed and, unfortu- nately, for hackers to profit from. As an industry, we have to develop new standards, and those standards need to be implemented across the board in order to get in front of the challenges that we're facing."

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