| Brief Excerpt: | ...Bill, I'm going to start the audience portion before we get started. So, let's get here clickers ready. We're going to try and do the automated Audience Response System real quick. The first one, hopefully, is obvious. Will health reform be a positive for LifePoint in 2014? Let's start with very negative at one, very positive at five and so forth. All right. Easy consensus there. There's still one particular for negative for hospitals. I don't know. We're going to find this person by the end of the conference. Second question, as LifePoint contracts, remember their geographies and their markets relative to others, would we expect those rates to be closer to Medicaid or commercial? All right, a little bit more mix than I would have expected, but okay. Next question, the utilization trends, so think about admits here. Would we expect 2013 a significant increase or a significant decrease somewhere between one and five? So probably flat to up is what it looks likes. Next question, how would... |
