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Carnahan Group is a boutique strategic healthcare firm that has consulted with the world's largest for-profit and non-profit health organizations in the areas of Community Health Needs Assessments, Medical Staff Demand Analyses, Valuations, transactions and strategic planning.

Our Community Health Needs Assessments are in-depth reports, not limited to just numbers. A dedicated team performs on-site visits, focus groups and interviews to provide hospitals and administrations with realistic recommendations. Our assessments are not only based on what is needed to satisfy government requirements but also on what will benefit the community. We want to educate the healthcare community on Community Health Needs Assessments and hold quarterly webinars to help you get started.

At Carnahan Group, we provide the best individualized options for healthcare organizations. Our trusted and experienced advisors understand clients need a sound plan to guide them toward wise growth strategies. Furthermore, our clients have the confidence in knowing that Carnahan Group reports will withstand the toughest industry scrutiny and litigation.

www.carnahangroup.com

Dorsey & Whitney LLP is a full-service business law firm with approximately 600 attorneys.  Our partnership began in 1912 to meet the needs of a prominent Minneapolis business, and has since grown to become an international firm with 19 offices in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia.  Dorsey’s health care practice covers a full range of health-related industries, representing providers, payers, life sciences/medical device companies and investors.  We have represented health care providers, such as hospitals and integrated delivery systems, physician group practices, and long-term care providers, for decades.  We collaborate with providers to help them achieve their goals in areas including regulatory matters, joint ventures, integrations, mergers and acquisitions, licensure matters, tax compliance (including extensive work with many nonprofit clients), litigation and more.  Dorsey’s health lawyers use a team approach to ensure that our clients receive timely and efficient service of superior quality.  Our health care focus regularly enables us to provide clients with valuable industry insight in addition to our legal counsel.  Clients that we proudly serve include the Mayo Clinic, Fairview Health Services, MultiCare Health System and many others.

www.dorsey.com

Ernst & Young is a global leader in advisory, tax, transaction and assurance services. Our Health Care Advisory Services practice combines the capabilities of over 2,000 professionals who assist our health care clients in addressing their most challenging issues from strategy to implementation, providing an integrated view of the entire health care landscape. Clients include more than 3,500 payers, providers, federal government health care agencies, and firms in life sciences and public health.

www.ey.com

Health Endeavors is a web-based software solution that provides 24/7 access to management and compliance solutions for hospitals and physicians.  Our subscriber service provides pre-constructed integrated solutions for:

- Conflict of Interest Management
- Physician Non-Monetary Comp tracking
- Contract & Entity information management
- Medical Director hours/time studies tracking
- Training Center for staff, physicians and board members
- Submission of online questions and note audits to certified coders for analysis
- Credentialing document management
- ACO Application, Implementation & Management
- Physician Alignment & Collaboration solutions

We are uniquely different as we provide a one-stop, anytime access solution.

www.healthendeavors.com

Honigman is a leading business law firm based in Michigan with an international practice. Headquartered in Detroit, the firm has over 250 attorneys practicing in more than 50 different areas of concentration.  
  
Honigman's Health Care Group is known for helping clients achieve their business goals despite the evolving challenges confronting them in health care today.  Honigman regularly serves as lead counsel for hospitals and health care systems in connection  affiliations and divestitures.  This work involves structuring, negotiating and effectuating acquisitions, divestitures, mergers, joint operating agreements and joint ventures.  It  also involves providing advice on applicable federal and state law and regulations, licensure and reimbursement implications of a transaction, governance issues, employment, labor and benefit issues, contractual issues, real estate and environmental matters, information technology needs, religious issues, tax considerations and compliance matters.   Honigman's hospital and health system clients include multi-state, multi-hospital systems, academic medical centers, specialty hospitals, long-term care hospitals, and community,  municipal,  critical access and rural hospitals.   The Health Care Group also counsels other health care providers, managed care plans and physician groups on all aspects of health care law. 

Honigman also has been one of the preeminent national firms in the healthcare antitrust area for many years. Its efforts have included one of the leading hospital merger cases  (in which we defeated the Department of Justice) and one of the leading cases concerning  HMO antitrust liability. We have represented a wide variety of hospitals, networks and physician practices in  antitrust  litigation, counseling, and representation before government agencies, including numerous government investigations of mergers and other affiliations, in more than 20 states.   

www.honigman.com

Integrated Healthcare Strategies is a national consulting firm dedicated exclusively to improving the operations of healthcare organizations.  We offer a wide range of compensation, management, and survey solutions that help all your ‘People of Healthcare’ succeed – leaders, physicians, staff, volunteers, and trustees.  We can assist you with:  hospital and physician alignment; physician compensation; executive compensation; staff compensation; leadership development; leadership transition planning; governance solutions; human resource solutions; labor relations; executive search; governance solutions; physician practice management; physician resource planning; M & A Transition Issues; and compensation and engagement surveys.

www.ihstrategies.com

Jarrard Phillips Cate & Hancock is a healthcare public affairs firm singularly focused on helping the leaders of today’s healthcare organizations use the tools of politics and communications to win their strategic goals during times of challenge or change.

With offices in Nashville and Chicago, our team of former political operatives, journalists and healthcare marketers develops and manages successful campaigns for hospitals and health systems throughout the United States. We help them navigate high stakes issues such as: organizational restructuring; mergers and acquisitions; crisis management; reputation management and (re)positioning of companies, hospitals and service lines in new and existing markets. 

Jarrard Inc. has been named in the Top 20 fastest growing firms in the nation by
O’Dwyer’s in 2009 and 2010, and ranks among the top healthcare PR firms in the U.S.

We understand the complex pressures that drive the industry, and we bring the intensity, intelligence and discipline – the cornerstones of every good political campaign – to the healthcare arena. 

www.jarrardinc.com

With over 800 attorneys and 52 offices, Littler Mendelson is the largest U.S.-based law firm exclusively devoted to representing management in employment and labor law matters. As the only U.S. member of the Ius Laboris global alliance, Littler has extensive resources to address the needs of multi-national clients, from navigating international employment laws and labor relations issues to applying corporate policies worldwide. Established in 1942, the firm has litigated, mediated and negotiated some of the most influential employment law cases and labor contracts on record.

www.littler.com

McGladrey is the fifth largest U.S. provider of assurance, tax and consulting services, providing services to nearly 3,000 health care organizations, addressing reimbursement and regulatory compliance, operational improvement, healthcare information technology and health care plans, in addition to accounting and tax services.

www.mcgladrey.com

O'Brien Group is an executive leadership consulting firm that helps healthcare's senior-most leaders tackle some of their organization's toughest reform-driven challenges; including leading mergers/acquisitions and physician integration. O'Brien Group consultants work with CEOs and their  teams to strengthen team dynamics, better manage conflict and improve the results of their change initiatives. 

Their services include both individual Executive Coaching and Executive Team level work.

The results: The health systems they work with now tackle important opportunities with a renewed sense of alacrity, lead their peers on numerous operational and financial measures and have won Top 10 Best U.S. Health System Awards (Thompson-Reuters).

Clients include: Catholic Health Partners, MemorialCare Health System, BayCare, Tri-Health, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital and SSM Health Care.

www.obriengroup.us

The Pinnacle Group is a nationally recognized leader in valuation services, physician compensation, revenue cycle & coding consulting, and hospital-physician integration.  Pinnacle supports a wide variety of clients including, but not limited to: hospitals and health systems, ambulatory surgery centers, physician groups, dialysis providers, medical device and other healthcare companies.  Sister companies to Pinnacle provide services related to physician practice management, medical billing and coding, and technology/integration support services, which affords Pinnacle operational perspectives and insights - not typically available through other consulting firms.  Pinnacle's services are backed by a professional and responsive team, to help our clients devise solutions to their complex and challenging issues.

www.pinnaclegrouphc.com

The Physician Fair Market Value Program is an innovative solution for healthcare organizations, designed to build internal capacity, reduce costs, and promote compliance within physician compensation and contracting.  Through powerful tools and proprietary information, licensed organizations have immediate access to FMV payment terms, which can be used to support, document and monitor agreements such as employment, medical directorships, and call arrangements.  By leveraging a proven methodology, the Physician FMV Program significantly advances health organizations’ ability to negotiate contracts, identify potential compliance risks, and create meaningful documentation to explain and support physician payment decisions.  Nationally, over 175 hospitals now benefit from Program participation. 

www.physicianfmv.com. 

Proskauer assists health care clients navigate the increasingly intricate and ever-evolving regulatory environment in which they operate, as well as litigating their most challenging disputes.  We also represent leading hospitals and health systems, and other service providers, and health care investors and lenders, across the globe in their most complex transactions, including M&A deals, joint ventures, and financings.  Ranked in the first tier of health care practices in the 2010 edition of Chambers USA, and a recipient of the Top 10 Award of Excellence from the American Health Lawyers Association, Proskauer is clearly a leader in the field. 

www.proskauer.com

Altegra Health™ was formed through the merger of five “best in breed” companies including Sinaiko Healthcare Consulting Inc and The Coding Source, LLC.  We have been operating since 1990 and have six offices along with over 1,000 employees nationwide to serve our clients.

Altegra Health™ leads the industry by aligning its best-in-class resources with our health plan and provider clients’ existing resources, resulting in comprehensive, truly integrated solutions for revenue cycle management, coding and compliance, member engagement, quality measurement and reporting and a range of Advisory Services.  Our company is uniquely positioned to provide solutions that enhance revenue, strengthen compliance, and improve overall performance, working in lockstep with our health plan and provider clients as the healthcare delivery system continues to evolve.

Altegra Health™ provides expert consulting and coding solutions to improve processes for hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, and medical groups.  Our coding related services include coding compliance audits, privileged compliance investigations, RAC support, ICD-10 consulting and education, and clinical revenue cycle consulting.

www.sinaikohc.com

SNR Denton is a client-focused international legal practice delivering quality and value.  We serve clients in key business and financial centers from 48 locations in 32 countries, through offices, associate firms and special alliances across the US, UK, Europe, the Middle East, Russia and the CIS, South-East Asia, and Africa, making us a top 25 legal services provider by lawyers and professionals worldwide.  Joining the complementary top tier practices of its founding firms -- Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP and Denton Wilde Sapte LLP -- SNR Denton offers business, government and institutional clients premier service and a disciplined focus to meet evolving needs in eight key industry sectors: Energy, Transport and Infrastructure; Financial Institutions and Funds; Government; Health and Life Sciences; Insurance; Manufacturing; Real Estate, Retail and Hotels; and Technology, Media and Telecommunications. Please see snrdenton.com for more information.

www.snrdenton.com