Date/Time: Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Michael Patterson, FACHE, President & CEO, Mississippi Valley Health
Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE
AEU Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care
Overview: Examine the ways that ASCs can provide overnight care to patients who need active monitoring for up to 23 hours and 59 minutes. Get a close-up view of how the Mississippi Valley Surgery Center provides overnight care to its total joint replacement and spine patients, with a focus on key operational concerns such as staff training, safety/security, food, equipment, visitors and more. Consider best practices and current trends in overnight care, including recovery care centers, skilled nursing facilities, rehabilitation facilities, in-house at an ASC and hotels. For ASCs interested in offering recovery care for the first time or evaluating programs they already have in place, this is a can’t-miss webinar.
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Date/Time: Tuesday, February 6, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: John Karwoski, RPh MBA, President and Founder, JDJ Consulting
Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE
AEU Content Area: Regulatory and Legal Issues
Overview: Drug diversion can involve or affect anyone who enters your ASC, including patients, staff, children, friends, family and peers in your community. Explore 10 proven strategies you can use to identify and prevent diversion in your ASC and your ASC’s responsibilities in reporting drug diversion. Review important facts about the US opioid epidemic and, with an eye on ways your ASC can contribute, what national regulators and states are doing to reduce drug diversion and the over-prescribing of narcotics.
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Date/Time: Tuesday, February 20, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
Speakers:
Rita Hernandez Figi, MedHQ
Tom Jacobs, BS, MBA, CEO, MedHQ
Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE
AEU Content Area: Human Resources
Overview: Handled improperly, adverse events in human resources can significantly derail your workforce productivity, cost tens of thousands of dollars and cause upward pressure on your insurance rates. Learn strategies for mitigating risk and handling the top five most difficult human resources risk events, including the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) interactions, hostile work environments, discrimination claims, involuntary terminations and claims of sexual harassment. Get practical, proven strategies you can put to work in your center today.
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Date/Time: Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Michelle George, RN, MSN, CASC, Vice President Clinical Services,
Surgical Care Affiliates
Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE
AEU Content Area: Quality Management
Overview: Although rare in ASCs, an adverse event can impact your patients’ and physicians’ perceptions of the care your ASC provides, negatively affect your center’s quality measure performance and drive up the cost of care for your patients. Find out how to conduct a root cause analysis that looks at why an adverse event happened and how to develop a performance plan of action that targets that root cause and prevents a comparable event in the future. Take away key strategies for improving patient safety and overall quality of care and performance in your ASC.
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Date/Time: Tuesday, May 8, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Tim Oliver, Regional Director, Materials Management,
United Surgical Partners International
Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE
AEU Content Area: Financial
Overview: Cutting costs in an ASC requires communication and partnerships between materials management personnel, physicians and clinical staff. Find effective ways to counter physician-influencing vendor sales representatives with your own data. Look at ways to cut costs using group purchasing organizations, product standardization, reprocessing, third-party resellers, medical/surgical and pharmacy distributions and more. Consider ways a materials management consultant can be a valuable resource at your center, well beyond just ordering, receiving and stocking supplies.
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Date/Time: Tuesday, May 22, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
Speakers:
Kay Tucker, Director of Communications,
Ambulatory Surgery Center Association
Charlie Leonard, Public Relations and Public Affairs Consultant,
OCNC Group
Overview: This webinar will provide a topical discussion of the challenges and opportunities ASCs face when interacting with the media. It will include practical tips for both initiating and responding to media coverage and an overview of resources available from ASCA to its members confronting adverse circumstances.
Several case studies that will provide tactical guidance for improving media coverage in challenging circumstances, as well as ways to use both traditional and social media to promote your brand and professional services, will be presented.
Time will be made available for a live question and answer period.
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Date/Time: Tuesday, June 12, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Ann Geier, MS, RN, CNOR, CASC, Chief Nursing Officer,
SourceMedical
Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE
AEU Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care
Overview: Regulatory agencies require all health care providers to receive training in infection control prior to treating patients in ASCs. The intention is that all ASC staff and all credentialed staff, including physicians, dentists and allied health professionals (AHPs), receive training. How does your ASC interpret this requirement? Is your ASC compliant? What training do you provide and how often? This presentation will deliver ideas for training all ASC staff, including credentialed staff. Get practical solutions for presenting information that all health care providers will be encouraged to read.
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Date/Time: Tuesday, July 10, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Heather Lambert, Manager, Training and Development, AMSURG
Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE
AEU Content Area: Human Resources
Overview: Review the definition of conflict and some startling facts about conflict in the ASC setting. Discuss different views on levels and causes of conflict and different styles of conflict management. Explore typical responses to conflict and real-world advice on ways to apply the conflict resolution process in your ASC.
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Date/Time: Tuesday, August 7, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker:
Jessica Edmiston, BS, CPC, CASCC, AHIMA Approved ICD-10-CM Trainer, SVP, Coding
National Medical Billing Services
Alison Kuley, CPC, Senior Spine Coder
National Medical Billing Services
Cody Wheeler, Bachelor of Arts in Business Management, Senior Manager, Accounts Receivable
National Medical Billing Services
Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE
AEU Content Area: Financial
Overview: The revenue cycle is becoming increasingly complex due to ever changing payor guidelines, documentation challenges and vendor pressures with respect to new technology. Explore ways to track changes in LCDs and payor policies to keep coders and providers educated to avoid, track and overturn denials. Stay on top of the multiple edit systems being employed by payors. We will further discuss the increase in contract specific guidelines with regards to implant billing requirements. Finally, we will walk through some increasingly common procedures that result in the unfavorable unlisted codes such as subchondroplasty and spirox latera nasal implant procedures.
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Date/Time: Tuesday, August 21, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Tina DiMarino, MSN, RN, CNOR, CASC, Administrator,
Mid-Atlantic Surgery Pavilion
Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE
AEU Content Area: Quality Management
Overview: Accreditation and Medicare standards are the same across the board for both the largest and smallest ASCs. Developing a meaningful quality improvement program can be challenging, especially in smaller centers with fewer employees. This presentation will review a back-to-basics approach and system for collecting the data needed to drive the program. This system ensures a robust program, no matter the size of the ASC. Using this approach fosters "buy-in" from staff and motivates their participation.
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Date/Time: Tuesday, September 11, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Daren Smith, BSN, Senior Clinical Solutions Specialist,
Surgical Information Systems
Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE
AEU Content Area: Human Resources
Overview: For every patient scheduled for surgery, ASCs invest significant time and energy to ensure success. However, when it comes to the planned or unplanned departure of a physician, the need to prepare is often overlooked. Focus on the components of an effective, ongoing physician succession plan, including what is needed to execute the plan successfully and how to avoid common pitfalls along the way.
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Date/Time: Tuesday, September 18, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
Speakers:
Debra Stinchcomb, RN, BSN, MBA, CASC, Consultant
Progressive Surgical Solutions
John Karwoski, RPh MBA, President and Founder
JDJ Consulting
Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE
AEU Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care
Overview: Does your ASC take steps to ensure the appropriate antimicrobials, including antibiotics, are used in your ASC? The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) says that 20 to 50 percent of all antibiotics prescribed in US acute care hospitals are either unnecessary or inappropriate. Learn what this means to your ASC from a consulting pharmacist and an ASC professional.
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Date/Time: Tuesday, September 25, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Rebecca Overton-Geise, CPC, President, NSN Revenue Resources
Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE
AEU Content Area: Financial
Overview: This webinar will look at how the culture and morale of your team can impact how well you optimize collections. From team building and communication to defining expectations and celebrating success, review ways that leaders can impact the level of success achieved by their revenue cycle team.
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Date/Time: Tuesday, October 9, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Michele McKinley, LVN, CRCST, CIS, CHL, AGTS, ASQ CMQ/OE,
Senior Clinical Education Specialist, Steris
Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE
AEU Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care
Overview: With the ever-expanding list of procedures being provided in the outpatient setting, it is critical for all ASCs and small health care facilities, including physicians' offices and clinics, to understand the guidelines for reprocessing medical devices and the importance of those guidelines in keeping your patients safe. Regulatory inspectors hold all facilities to the same standards, regardless of their size. Join this program to get a template for compliance that you can rely on inside your ASC.
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Date/Time: Tuesday, October 23, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Amy Rey, Executive Vice President, Zeldis Research Associates
Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE
AEU Content Area: Human Resources
Overview: Focus continues to shift to the millennial consumer, but what about the other side of the coin? What does the working world look like from a millennial point of view? Zeldis Research conducted an in-depth exploration of millennial professionals to understand their unique perspectives, needs and priorities. How are they different from or similar to their older counterparts? Hear directly, in their own words, from this important segment that will drive the future of the workplace.
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Date/Time: Tuesday, November 6, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Darcy Thor, MBA, CMRP, CPC-A, Chief Financial Officer,
Harmony Surgery Center
Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE
AEU Content Area: Financial
Overview: Learn how to calculate key performance indicators and use this information to benchmark your facility within the industry and against itself for financial health and success. Find out how to identify trends and improvement opportunities to help you grow or refocus your business.
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Date/Time: Tuesday, November 13, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
Speakers:
Gina Throneberry, RN, MBA, CASC, CNOR,
Director of Education and Clinical Affairs, Ambulatory Surgery Center Association
Donna Slosburg, RN, BSN, LHRM, CASC,
Executive Director, ASC Quality Collaboration
Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE
AEU Content Area: Quality Management
Overview: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ quality reporting program for ASCs continues to pose new challenges for perioperative leaders in the ASC setting. Learn what quality measures your ASC must report in 2019 and how to view your reports successfully. Get key definitions and answers to frequently asked questions about the current measures, then look ahead at new quality reporting measures and changes being considered for the future.
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Date/Time: Tuesday, December 4, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Kara Newbury, Regulatory Counsel, Ambulatory Surgery Center Association
Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE
AEU Content Area: Regulatory and Legal Issues
Overview: Get the final word on the changes to Medicare’s ASC payment system that will take effect January 1, 2019. Find out how ASC payment rates will change in 2019 and if new procedures were added to the final list of those eligible to be performed on Medicare patients in the ASC setting. This webinar will not discuss coding changes.
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Date/Time: Tuesday, December 18, 2018, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Cristina Bentin, CMA, CCS-P, COC, CPPM, AAPC Fellow,
President, Coding Compliance Management
Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE
AEU Content Area: Regulatory and Legal Issues
Overview: ASC business office assessments range from simple, rudimentary mistakes to more egregious infractions like willful fraudulent billing or noncompliance with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) interpretive guidelines. Examine business office assessment findings and the tools and monitoring strategies you need to have in place to ensure efficient workflow while maximizing reimbursement for all of the services your facility provides.
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