Webinars

Date/Time:
Tuesday, October 6, 2020, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker(s):
Ann Geier, MS, RN, CNOR (E), CASC, Chief Nursing Officer, Surgical Information Systems

Continuing Education:
1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area:
Regulatory and Legal Issues

CAIP™ Content Area:
N/A

Overview:
ASC administrators have a lot to do, every single day. Between regulatory reports, state reports, preventive maintenance on equipment, contract renewals, performance evaluations, recredentialing of healthcare personnel and so much more, it’s easy to lose track of what—and when—things are due. Join this webinar to get checklists of the things you need to remember and gain practical tips and strategies designed to help busy administrators like you stay on track.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, October 20, 2020, 1:00 pm ET
Rebecca Overton-Geise, President, NSN Revenue Resources

Continuing Education:
1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area:
Financial

CAIP™ Content Area:
N/A

Overview:
Explore creative ways of improving your team’s knowledge, accountability and overall engagement in order to improve revenue cycle outcomes and increase the profitability of your center. Discuss strategies on how to bridge the gap between your clinical and materials management teams and the revenue cycle management team in order to help unite your center and lead your center to better results.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker(s):
John Goehle, MBA, CPA, CASC, Chief Operating Officer, Ambulatory Healthcare Strategies

Continuing Education:
1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area:
Regulatory and Legal Issues

CAIP™ Content Area:
N/A

Overview:
Join this webinar to explore the various types of organizational structures common in ASCs. Discuss the responsibilities of governing body members under the Medicare Conditions for Coverage and review the attributes of a high-functioning and compliant governing board.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, November 17, 2020, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker(s):
Gina Throneberry, RN, MBA, CASC, CNOR, Director of Education and Clinical Affairs, Ambulatory Surgery Center Association

Continuing Education:
1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area:
Quality Management

CAIP™ Content Area:
N/A

Overview:
Recent changes in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) quality reporting program for ASCs pose new challenges for perioperative leaders in the ASC setting. Learn what quality reporting measures are required now and get key definitions and answers to frequently asked questions about the measures your ASC needs to report.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, December 1, 2020, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker(s):
Kara Newbury, JD, Director of Government Affairs & Regulatory Counsel, Ambulatory Surgery Center Association

Continuing Education:
1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area:
Regulatory and Legal Issues

CAIP™ Content Area:
N/A

Overview:
Get the final word on the changes to Medicare’s ASC payment system that will take effect January 1, 2021. Find out how ASC payment rates will change in 2021 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. Join the live program to ask questions specific to your ASC.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, January 14, 2020, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker(s):
Melissa Bailey, RN, MA, Technical Service Supervisor, 3M Medical Solutions Division

Continuing Education:
1 hour of AEU/CE/IPCH

AEU Content Area:
Delivery of Patient Care

CAIP™ Content Area:
Infection Prevention Strategies

Overview:
Many ASCs don’t have defined temperature management protocols for their perioperative patients and may not be able to recognize that their patients could be cold. Explore the important role that maintaining normothermia plays in helping to improve patient outcomes, including reducing SSI rates and decreasing intraoperative bleeding. Discuss crucial elements that should be included in a perioperative temperature management protocol and find out how these elements can be applied in the ASC setting.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker(s):
Rachel Uzlik, CPHQ, Vice President of Clinic Services and Quality, Twin Cities Orthopedics and Revo Health

Continuing Education:
1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area:
Delivery of Patient Care

CAIP™ Content Area:
N/A

Overview:
This webinar walks through the process several Minnesota ASCs used to conduct a multi-dimensional study (including more than 10,000 patients) of the causes and effects of the opioid epidemic in their community. The discussion reviews how these ASCs collaborated with physicians, patients and other healthcare providers in order to develop materials needed to launch a community-wide response to the opioid crisis.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, February 11, 2020, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker(s):
Scott Schoeffel, JD, Senior Attorney, Theodora Oringher PC

Continuing Education:
1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area:
Regulatory and Legal Issues

CAIP™ Content Area:
N/A

Overview:
Collecting from a dissatisfied patient can be tricky business. Join this webinar to delve into best practices for avoiding legal and financial risk. Discuss the warning signs of risk, how to determine when and if a patient balance should be written off and how you can avoid admitting fault while also keeping the patient happy. Learn how to identify when it’s time to involve your ASC’s administrator, a risk manager or an attorney.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, February 25, 2020, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker(s):
Jho Outlaw, Senior Vice President of Revenue Cycle Services, Surgical Information Systems

Continuing Education:
1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area:
Human Resources

CAIP™ Content Area:
N/A

Overview:
Allowing ASC business office staff to work remotely can provide significant benefits to both employers and employees. Staff satisfaction and retention are likely to increase, and virtual staff are often more productive than onsite employees. Furthermore, employing remote workers allows a surgery center to tap into a larger pool of job candidates, save money on renting office space or even turn existing business office space into additional patient care areas. But while adopting a telework policy comes with benefits, there are hurdles to overcome. Learn how to effectively transition a business office team to remote work, establish staff performance expectations, maintain accountability by leveraging metrics and drive engagement and productivity.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, March 10, 2020, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker(s):
Lisa Sinsel, MSN, RN, Senior Director, Clinical Services, Surgical Care Affiliates

Continuing Education:
1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area:
Quality Management

CAIP™ Content Area:
N/A

Overview:
Find out how to use a nationally recognized patient safety culture survey to promote patient safety and enhance your patients’ experiences. Join this webinar to learn about one organization’s journey as they developed a robust patient safety culture program. Listen in as they recount the various steps involved, from survey deployment through action planning. The successes, challenges and lessons they learned over the course of a two-year period will also be shared.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, March 24, 2020, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker(s):
Caryl Anne Serbin, RN, BSN, LHRM, President, Serbin Medical Billing

Tara Gillon, CRCP-P, Vice President of Operations, Serbin Medical Billing

Continuing Education:
1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area:
Financial

CAIP™ Content Area:
N/A

Overview:
Revenue cycle management can make or break your ASC. Your center’s financial success is directly linked to the efficiency, accuracy and timeliness of all business office functions that impact your revenue cycle. Some of these functions, including coding, billing and collections, have clear connections to your ASC’s finances. However, a variety of other, less obvious areas—such as staffing, fee schedule maintenance, managed care negotiations, scheduling, insurance verification, financial counseling, registration and auditing—can also impact the revenue cycle. Learn how to identify warning signs of practices that may negatively affect your ASC’s revenue stream and discuss guidelines for how to correct—or better yet, how to avoid—these cash-flow pitfalls.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, April 7, 2020, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker(s):
Lisa Berus, RN, MSN, MEd, CASSPT, CAIP, Director, Integration Management, Surgical Care Affiliates

Continuing Education:
1 hour of AEU/CE/IPCH

AEU Content Area:
Delivery of Patient Care

CAIP™ Content Area:
Infection Prevention Program Development, Implementation and Maintenance

Overview:
In the ASC, there is often overlap between the areas overseen by the infection preventionist and those assessed by the safety officer. One aspect that crosses both safety and infection prevention lanes is OSHA requirements. Learn how to foster collaboration between the infection preventionist and safety officer in order to produce strong safety, infection and quality programs in the ASC.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, August 4, 2020, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker(s):
Sandra Jones, MBA, MSM, CPHRM, CHCQM, FHFMA, CASC, President/CEO, Ambulatory Strategies

Continuing Education:
1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area:
Quality Management

CAIP™ Content Area:
N/A

Overview:
When is a patient injury considered an adverse, a sentinel or a never event? What tools are available to help you document the investigation and analyze all the variables that may have contributed to the incident? What duty do you have to disclose information to the patient and to the state licensing authority? Join this webinar to learn how to define adverse events and explore the tools you can use to respond to an incident. Find out how to develop an action plan and assess its effectiveness in decreasing the likelihood that a patient injury will reoccur.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, August 11, 2020, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker(s):
Gerard Nussbaum, JD, CPA, CMA, RCDD, Principal, Zarach Associates, LLC
Seth Wolf, JD, MBA, Deputy General Counsel, University Hospitals
Rick Hindman, JD, Counsel, McDonald Hopkins LLC

Continuing Education:
1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area:
Regulatory/Legal

CAIP™ Content Area:
N/A

Overview:
Discuss privacy and security-related issues connected to the COVID-19 pandemic that may affect ASCs. Areas covered will include teleconferencing and telehealth security, EEOC guidance with respect to employees, HIPAA waivers, pending legislation and more.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, August 18, 2020, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker(s):
Michele McKinley, LVN, CRCST, CIS, CHL, AGTS, ASQ, CMQ/OE, Senior Clinical Education Specialist, Steris Corporation

Continuing Education:
1 hour of AEU/CE/IPCH

AEU Content Area:
Delivery of Patient Care

CAIP™ Content Area:
Instrument/Equipment Cleaning, Disinfection and Sterilization

Overview:
Make sure you understand all the guidelines for reprocessing medical devices that apply inside your ASC, their role in protecting patient safety and the practices your facility can put in place to ensure compliance. Use the information from this webinar as a template of compliance you can apply in your ASC. If you’re planning on expanding your service line or made a change recently, this is a webinar you won’t want to miss.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, September 8, 2020, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker(s):
Jan Allison, RN, CHSP, Consultant

Continuing Education:
1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area:
Regulatory and Legal Issues

CAIP™ Content Area:
N/A

Overview:
Examine the evolving climate of Medicare surveys and gain a clear understanding of the regulatory requirements. Walk through a typical day in the life of a Medicare survey, discuss current survey deficiency trends and identify important compliance strategies that will assist you in maintaining a continued state of survey readiness.

Date/Time:
Tuesday, September 22, 2020, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker(s):
Tami Robinson, MSN, RN, Administrator/Director of Nursing, Unity Surgical Center

Continuing Education:
1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area:
Human Resources

CAIP™ Content Area:
N/A

Overview:
Are you getting the best results from your staff? Are you putting forth your best effort? Join this exciting discussion to gain ideas and tips for enhancing staff morale that will have your employees talking for days. Dissect strategies that help boost employee engagement and encourage staff to go beyond their comfort zone. Learn how to create a culture where accountability, encouragement, teamwork and motivation are principles that are palpable throughout your organization.

Date/Time: Tuesday, January 29, 2019, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker: Susan Flynn, Technical Service Specialist, 3M Medical Solutions Division

Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care

CAIP™ Content Area: Instrument/Equipment Cleaning, Disinfection & Sterilization

Overview: Keep your patients safe with state-of-the-art sterilization techniques recommended by experts and proven in tests conducted in laboratories and health care facilities across the country. Review sterilization modalities typically used in the ASC setting, discuss available sterilization monitoring tools and summarize current guidelines and recommended practices for quality control monitoring of steam and vaporized hydrogen peroxide sterilization processes.

Date/Time: Tuesday, February 26, 2019, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker: Michael Patterson, FACHE, President & CEO, Mississippi Valley Health

Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area: Quality Management

Overview: Complaints and concerns are a fact of life. How we respond to them determines how patients will perceive the care they are provided. Examine specific tools and tactics you can use to help de-escalate complaints and turn a potentially negative situation into a positive one.

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 12, 2019, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker: Todd Eich, CMRP, CST, Director of Training & Implementation, United Surgical Partners International

Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area: Financial

Overview: Examine the supply chain function in your ASC from an administrator’s point of view. Learn how to identify the professional materials manager, understand procurement transactions and conduct meaningful data analytics in your center. Get tools to help you manage cost and drive efficiencies. Both new and experienced ASC administrators will gain valuable insights on how to engage with their materials manager in order to better implement an efficient, cost-effective supply chain for their organization.

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 26, 2019, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker: Debra Stinchcomb, MBA, BSN, RN, CASC, Senior Consultant, Progressive Surgical Solutions

Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area: Quality Management

Overview: Are you getting the most out of your facility’s benchmarking results? Do you struggle thinking of Quality Improvement (QI) studies to conduct?

Learn how to seek out opportunities for improving quality and patient care—and how to harness your findings by turning them into a Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI) study.

Benchmarking is required by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the accrediting organizations, and it should be an integral part of your QAPI program. Join this webinar to review the benchmarking process and find ways to use the results from your next survey to your advantage.

Date/Time: Tuesday, April 9, 2019, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker: Erin Imhoff, MS, RN, ONC, ASC Program Lead & Hospital Analyst—Division of Acute Care Services, Survey & Certification Group, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area: Regulatory and Legal Issues

Overview: Hear firsthand from this Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) official about CMS’ ASC survey process, including the role of state agencies and the accreditation organizations. Discuss the current infection control worksheet and the most common deficiency citations. Find out how to be prepared for a survey even when you are not expecting a surveyor in your facility that day.

Date/Time: Tuesday, June 4, 2019, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker: Marion Sylvia, BBA, RN, CNOR, Infection Control Preventionist, Bluffton Okatie Surgery Center

Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care

CAIP™ Content Area: Program Development, Implementation & Maintenance

Overview: Learn how to create a proactive infection prevention (IP) plan based on a comprehensive infection control (IC) risk assessment—a perpetual document that serves as the foundation of your program. Look at techniques for evaluating the actual risk factors for your population, the services you provide and geographic and community-based trends in your region. Return home with the know-how you need to conduct an IC risk analysis that can help you improve the effectiveness of your IP plan by better prioritizing your prevention strategies.

Date/Time: Tuesday, July 9, 2019, 1:00 pm ET

Speakers:
Jeff Hignite, Senior Manager, ECG Management Consultants

Matt Kilton, Associate Principal, ECG Management Consultants

Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area: Financial

Overview: Learn how to negotiate commercial insurance carrier contracts that pay you fairly for the care you provide. Join these experienced negotiators as they offer practical advice on assessing existing managed care agreements, determining how and when to engage payers and preparing and submitting effective proposals. Review the steps for gathering and organizing data, typical timeframes and how to avoid common mistakes and pitfalls. Look at current payer trends and changes your ASC should anticipate going forward.

Date/Time: Tuesday, August 6, 2019, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker: Ann Geier, MS, RN, CNOR, CASC, Chief Nursing Officer, Surgical Information Systems

Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care

CAIP™ Content Area: Education & Training

Overview: When the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) mandated that ASCs designate an infection preventionist (IP) in every facility, no one envisioned the time that would be required to address all the responsibilities that person would manage. Although ASCs are usually small facilities that rely on a combination of full-time and part-time nurses assigned to multiple roles, the IP position should not be managed as an afterthought. Depending on the size of the center and the complexity and volume of cases, the IP might spend many hours a week completing the work required. Administration should make this a priority position and allow the time and resources necessary to perform the role as CMS designed it. Learn how to achieve that goal without neglecting staffing priorities in other areas.

Date/Time: Tuesday, August 20, 2019, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker: Kylie Kaczor, MSN-RN, CMPE, CPHRM, ACHE, CPCO, CLSSBB, CASC, Vice President, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs, National Medical Billing Services

Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area: Financial

Overview: The increasing prevalence of high-deductible health plans over the last decade means that patients—who can be harder to collect from than payers—now owe a larger percentage of the bill. Join this webinar to explore the processes, technologies and best practices facilities across the country employ to help reduce the overall cost of collecting from patients. Take away principles you can apply at your own ASC to help improve patient collections without sacrificing satisfaction in the new, complex world of patient consumerism.

Date/Time: Tuesday, August 27, 2019, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker: Jason C. Ross, JD, Partner, Higgs Fletcher & Mack

Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area: Human Resources

Overview: The legalization of marijuana is on the rise. The #MeToo movement has spurred new legislation, and given rise to more harassment issues and claims. Join an experienced employment litigator to discuss how these new and developing issues affect the workplace, and how to navigate them.

Date/Time: Tuesday, September 10, 2019, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker: Roy Breitenbach, Partner, Garfunkel Wild, PC

Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area: Human Resources

Overview: One of the most complicated employment issues that ASCs deal with is how to navigate the requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) when an employee requests leave. Incorrectly handling these complex issues can subject your ASC to significant liability. Join this webinar for a step-by-step guide on how to comply with both ADA and FMLA requirements when handling employee leave requests, including the unique steps required when leave requests involve military leave or pregnancy and birth-related issues.

Date/Time: Tuesday, September 24, 2019, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker: Terry Bohlke, CPA, CASC, Vice President, Ambulatory Surgery Centers, Community Health Systems

Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area: Human Resources

Overview: “Salaries, Wages & Benefits” comprise one of the largest expense items on the ASC Profit & Loss statement. While this line item might, in theory, be the most controllable expense, in practice many ASCs find their payroll is out of control. Learn the secrets to controlling your productivity and improving your bottom line through proven techniques that go far beyond old-school standards and benchmarking.

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 8, 2019, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker: Marta Shultz, BS, MT, (ASCP), Product Manager, SimplifyASC

Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area: Regulatory and Legal Issues

Overview: Learn the pros and cons of adopting a new—or maximizing the use of an existing—electronic health record (EHR) in your facility. Find out what future EHR requirements could be coming for ASCs, then learn how to ensure your documentation keeps you survey ready during the transfer from paper to electronic documentation as well as when new requirements hit. Examine the similarities and differences between the EHR requirements for ASCs versus prior requirements for other health care organizations’ health records and discuss the requirements for EHR interoperability with other internal and external systems.

Date/Time: Tuesday, October 22, 2019, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker: Terri-Marie Mahoney, BN, CNOR, CASC, Administrator, Bluffton Okatie Surgery Center

Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care

CAIP™ Content Area: Surveillance, Data Collection & Analysis

Overview: Discuss the different types of surgical site infections, which patients you must follow for post-surgical infections and effective techniques for accomplishing your goals. Review the timeframes you need to meet, the length of time your patients need to be tracked and the special considerations that apply to patients that receive surgical implants. Get answers to all of your questions about how to respond when a patient has a surgical site infection, including: What data do you need to collect? What documents do you need to review during your investigation? What resources do you need to consult when you are collecting data? What actions do you need to take? And last but not least, who do you need to report this information to?

Date/Time: Tuesday, November 5, 2019, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker: Kara Newbury, Director of Government Affairs and Regulatory Counsel, Ambulatory Surgery Center Association

Continuing Education: N/A

AEU Content Area: N/A

Overview:

This webinar will not offer continuing education
On September 25, CMS released the final rule for Regulatory Provisions to Promote Program Efficiency, Transparency, and Burden Reduction. This webinar will discuss this rule and how these changes—which will be effective November 29, 2019—impact the Medicare Conditions for Coverage.

Date/Time: Tuesday, November 19, 2019, 1:00 pm ET

Speakers:
Donna Slosburg, RN, BSN, LHRM, CASC, ASC Quality Collaboration

Gina Throneberry, RN, MBA, CNOR, CASC, Director of Education and Clinical Affairs, Ambulatory Surgery Center Association

Continuing Education: 1 hour of AEU/CE

AEU Content Area: Quality Management

Overview: Recent changes in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) quality reporting program for ASCs pose new challenges for perioperative leaders in the ASC setting. Learn what quality reporting is required now and get key definitions and answers to frequently asked questions about the measures your ASC needs to report. Get ready for the next wave of quality reporting as the presenters pull out their crystal balls and project the future based on conversations ASCA and others have had with CMS in recent years.

Date/Time: Tuesday, December 3, 2019, 1:00 pm ET

Speaker: Kara Newbury, Regulatory Counsel & Director, Government & Public Affairs, 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, 2020. Find out how ASC payment rates will change in 2020 and examine the new procedures that were added to the final list of those eligible to be performed on Medicare patients in the ASC setting. This webinar does not discuss coding changes. Join the live program to ask questions specific to your ASC.