Specialty Hospitals

Specialty Hospitals, Ambulatory Surgery Centers, and General Hospitals:

Charting A Wise Public Policy

September 10, 2004

Conference Materials:

Papers:

Clinical Focus in Health Care: Some International Lessons. John Chilingerian, Ph.D., Professor, Brandeis University.

Adverse Effect of Physician-Owned Limited Service Facilities: Healthy Competition Depends on Level Playing Field. Charles N. Kahn III, President, Federation of American Hospitals; and Jeff Cohen, Vice President for Legislation, Federation of American Hospitals.

Transcript of Conference Proceedings

Presentations:

Competition from Specialty Facilities: Is it a Positive for Health Care? Paul B. Ginsburg, Ph.D., President, Center for Studying Health System Change.

Specialty Hospitals, Ambulatory Surgery Centers, and General Hospitals: Charting A Wise Public Policy. Michael D. Maves, M.D., MBA,

Executive Vice President and CEO, American Medical Association.
Clinical Focus in Health Care: Some International Lessons. John Chilingerian, Ph.D., Professor, Brandeis University.

The Specialty Surgical Hospital: Is the Playing Field Level? John Rex-Waller, Chairman and CEO, National Surgical Hospitals.
Competition Between Hospitals and ASCs: Is the Playing Field Level? Thomas Mallon, President and CEO, Regent Surgical Health