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·	Neurosurgeon as CEO: The Business of Neurosurgery
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Neurosurgeon as CEO:
The Business of Neurosurgery
August 7-8, 2010
New York, NY

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We encourage you to register early for this consistently
sold out course.

Course Brochure (PDF 390KB)

Attendees will be challenged by learning and exchanging ideas on how to create successful bottom lines, accumulate and effectively use information and electronic data, create new business opportunities, build new neurosurgical revenue streams and avoid lawsuits. Unlike other practice management courses, this course will be presented by major thought leaders and legal experts in neurosurgery who will candidly share their practice and legal experiences.

Course faculty has been selected to offer the audience a broad range of neurosurgical leaders with vision, imagination, and accomplishment in practice, especially in novel solutions to a rapidly changing practice environment.

New for 2010 Experts will discuss negotiation strategies needed to minimize your risks.

Who Should Attend
Neurosurgeons, administrators and senior managers who want to be successful in their neurosurgical practice and who possess the vision for expanding the practice beyond traditional styles and boundaries.

Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this CME activity, participants should be able to:

• Identify methods to increase practice revenue and find new alternative revenue sources.
• Analyze different models of practice integration with hospitals, outpatient facilities, ancillary services and other practices.
• Implement ways to expand subspecialty and integrated service lines.
• Describe new ways to create sustainable competitive practice advantages.
• Describe negotiation strategies to increase risk comfort.

Course Co-Directors

James R. Bean, MD Lexington, KY Biography		James I. Ausman, MD, PhD Rancho Mirage, CA Biography

Program Schedule

Saturday, August 7 | 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Sessions Include:

• Preparing for the Future: What's in Store for the Neurosurgical Practice?
• Healthcare Reform: How Could It Affect You?
• Hospital Employment: Is It For You?
• Small Group Practice Issues and Solutions
• Large Group Practice Issues and Solutions
• Academic Practice in the Real World

Sunday, August 8 | 8:00 AM - Noon

Sessions Include:

• Stark Law
  • Basics of the Federal Medicare and Medicaid Antikickback Law
  • General Prohibition on Self-Referral in the Stark Law and Exceptions
  • Recommended Method of Analysis of Factual Situations
• Negotiation: How to Get What You Want While Protecting Yourselves and Minimizing Risk

Hotel Accommodations/Course Location
The Westin New York at Times Square
270 West 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
Web site: www.westinny.com
Hotel Phone Number: (212) 201-2700
Reservations: (888) 627-7149
Room Rates: $199 single/double (plus mandatory porterage charge of $7.00 per person per bag)
Hotel Reservation Deadline: July 14, 2010

CME Credit
The AANS is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. The AANS designates this educational activity for a maximum of 10.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.