12 Key Issues Hospitals Will Face in 2013

In an Oct. 17 webinar presented by Becker's Hospital Review, Scott Becker, a partner at McGuireWoods, Chicago and publisher of Becker's Hospital Review, commented on a dozen of the most pressing issues facing hospitals and health systems today.

The topics discussed included:

• Hospital-hospital consolidation;
• Hospital-physician alignment;
• Payor-payor consolidation;
• Payor-provider consolidation;
• Sustainability of physician employment;
• Validity of alternative hospital-physician financial relationships;
• Hospitals with pro-physician cultures;
• Physician shortage and leakage;
• Hospitals facing bankruptcy;
• The likelihood of remaining independent;
• Accountable care organizations; and
• Physician burnout.