ASCA's 2013 Webinar Series will cover a variety of topics including quality management, delivery of patient care, beneficial business practices, regulatory and legal issues, human resources and more.
Each webinar lasts one hour and, unless otherwise indicated, offers one continuing education credit for nurses (CEU) and administrators (AEU). Four webinars this year also offer AAPC credits. View a list of the AEU content areas each webinar covers.
Full Price—$150 (Member Price—$100)
(Some webinars are free of charge.)
Special Discount for ASCA Members: Register for the entire series at once and save an additional 10% on the total price! You pay $1,350 for 18 webinars!
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Cancellation Policy: Registration fees are non-refundable.
Nursing contact hours and AEUs not available
Date/Time: Thursday, May 30, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: David Miller, RPh, Chief Executive Officer, International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP) and Sarah Dodge, Vice President of Government Affairs, IACP
Sponsored by:
Overview: Recent developments affecting compounding pharmacies are affecting the ways they can do business with your physicians and your ASC. Can your ASC work safely with a compounding pharmacy? Are there changes in the state and federal rules that apply? What do recent changes in the compounding pharmacy specialty mean to the patients that your ASC serves? Get these answers and more on May 30, 2013, at 1 pm ET when David Miller, RPh, chief executive officer of the International Academy of Compounding Pharmacists (IACP), and Sarah Dodge, vice president of government affairs for IACP, will present a one-hour webinar titled “New Developments in Compounding Pharmacies and What They Mean for Your ASC.”
Compounding pharmacists work directly with prescribers, including physicians, nurse practitioners and veterinarians, to create customized medication solutions for patients and animals whose health care needs cannot be met by standardized medications manufactured by the pharmaceutical industry. IACP is a professional association representing more than 2,700 pharmacists, technicians, student pharmacists, academicians and others who have a particular interest in the specialty practice of pharmacy compounding.
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 11, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Marion Jenkins, PhD, FHIMSS, Executive Vice President, 3t Systems
Overview: Learn how information technology (IT) and automation can give your ASC an edge over other providers, lower your administrative costs, improve outcomes and attract potential patients and partners. Understand the dos and don’ts of IT, including the security provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and how spending too little can be as costly as spending too much. Find out more about new services, such as cloud and mobile devices, and how to recognize and avoid the risks associated with “BYOD” (bring your own devices).
Date/Time: Tuesday, June 25, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Michelle Hill, MS, MT(ASCP)SLS, President, Technology Consulting Services
Overview: Is your center prepared for an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspection? What information do you need to know to comply with OSHA’s requirements? Learn how to prepare for and respond to an OSHA survey. Discuss what OSHA surveyors look for when they inspect an ASC and the most common citations that OSHA surveyors write.
Date/Time: Thursday, July 11, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Kim Woodruff, Vice President of Corporate Finance & Compliance, Pinnacle III
Overview: Social media is here to stay! Is your center being left behind? The answer depends on a number of factors and varies from facility to facility. Examine the ways social media can be an important element in your surgery center’s success, what your ASC needs to do before it launches a social media platform and how to determine if your platform is effective. Evaluate both the benefits and risks of social media to your ASC.
Date/Time: Tuesday, July 23, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Sandra Jones, CASC, CHCQM, LHRM, FHFMA, CEO, Ambulatory Strategies
Overview: How does your surgery center measure up? Are you spinning your wheels on Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement (QAPI)? Review internal and external benchmarking resources and sample methods to measure performance and focus your improvement activities. Then, examine proven techniques for presenting your information to your ASC’s staff, physicians and governing body to get buy-in and participation in your ASC’s QAPI activities that leads to measurable improvements in your ASC.
AAPC credit available
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 13, 1:00 pm ET
Speakers:Marian Lowe, MBA, Partner, Strategic Health Care
Jonathan Beal, Esq, Ambulatory Surgery Center Association
Overview: Learn how Medicare is proposing to change its ASC payment rates in 2014 and what new services ASCs may be able to provide to the program’s beneficiaries. Gain an understanding of how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to implement payment penalties for centers that fail to report on the ASC quality measures successfully, how to preview the data that will be used to calculate a payment penalty and what recourse is available to ASCs working with CMS. Find out what new measures CMS is proposing to include in its quality reporting program in the future.
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 27, 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
Overview: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ recently-instituted quality reporting program for ASCs poses new challenges for perioperative leaders in the ASC setting. Learn what quality reporting is required and get key definitions and answers to frequently asked questions about the measures your ASC needs to report. A quality reporting program update will be provided.
Date/Time: Tuesday, September 10, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Jan Odom-Forren, PhD, RN, CPAN, FAAN, Assistant Professor, University of Kentucky, College of Nursing and Co-Editor, Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing
Overview: Listen to a discussion of current scope of practice and competency issues involving the administration and monitoring of moderate sedation. Discuss the sedation continuum and assessment techniques used for patients in order to identify ways to manage patient complications. Case studies that emphasize the importance of patient safety will be presented.
AAPC credit available
Date/Time: Tuesday, November 19, 1:00 pm ET
Speakers:Marian Lowe, MBA, Partner, Strategic Health Care
Jonathan Beal, Esq, Ambulatory Surgery Center Association
Overview: Get the final word on the changes to Medicare’s ASC payment system and new services that ASCs can provide to Medicare beneficiaries effective January 1, 2014. Also gain an understanding of how the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) will implement payment penalties for centers that fail to successfully report on the ASC quality measures, how to preview the data that will be used to calculate a payment penalty and what recourse is available to ASCs working with CMS. Learn about the new measures that CMS is planning to include in its quality reporting program in the future.
AAPC credit available
Date/Time: Thursday, December 5, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Cristina Bentin, CCS-P, CPC-H, CMA
Overview: Get up to date on the new, revised and deleted CPT codes that will affect ASCs in 2014. Applications and scenarios for reporting the new codes, as well as reimbursement potentials, from a CMS perspective, will be addressed.
Date/Time: Tuesday, December 17, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Richard Best, MA, CIHM, COSP, Technical Director, Stericycle Inc
Overview: When a Safety Data Sheet enclosed with your lidocaine supply indicates that it is considered hazardous based on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s Hazard Communication Standard, does that mean that an expired carpule of that lidocaine is a hazardous waste or a hazardous material? What’s the difference anyway? Which of your red, black, yellow, blue and white disposal containers is the right one for your pharmaceutical waste? What about RCRA, P-listed waste, U-listed waste and controlled substances? When is a container considered empty? What about a small bottle of hand sanitizer—how should your ASC dispose of it?
Join this presentation to get a roadmap through the maze of regulations concerning the disposal of pharmaceutical waste. Define the differences between pharmaceuticals that are hazardous substances, hazardous materials and/or hazardous wastes and find out how to dispose of them properly, safely and in compliance with the regulatory standards that apply.
AAPC credit available
Date/Time: Tuesday, May 14, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Lisa Rock, President, National Medical Billing Services
Sponsored by:
Appeal Guide for Beginners, by Steve Verno
Overview: ASC billers are critical team members essential to the financial success of your ASC. They play a key role in keeping surgery centers compliant while maximizing revenue. Join this discussion of the important responsibilities of your ASC’s billing specialists to get guidelines and tips for training and empowering your ASC’s billing team for optimal success.
$150 for nonmembers, nursing contact hours and AEUs not available
Date/Time: Tuesday, May 7, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Kara Newbury, Assistant Director, Health Policy, ASCA and Gina Throneberry, RN, MBA, CASC, CNOR, Director of Education and Clinical Affairs, ASCA
Overview: This webinar will outline recent changes to the CMS Interpretive Guidelines that will affect your ASC. Learn about the changes to the regulations for advance directives, humidity levels in the operating/procedure rooms, emergency equipment, and same day surgery notification. Information will also be given on the status of the CMS proposal to remove the radiologist on staff requirement for ASCs.
Date/Time: Tuesday, March 5, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: David Shapiro, MD, CHC, CHCQM, CHPRM, CHRM, CASC
Overview: Find the best ways to configure and implement anesthesia coverage in your ASC. Focus on departmental organization and integration with all aspects of your anesthesia department’s activities, including regulatory compliance and the provision of high quality patient care. Discuss clinical considerations pertaining to pre-, intra- and postoperative management. Examine real-world approaches to anesthesia management in your ASC and strategies for addressing the related financial, clinical and operational issues that confront your ASC every day.
Date/Time: Tuesday, February 19, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Cindy Young, BSN, RN, CASC, Administrative Director of the Surgery Center of Farmington
Overview: Make certain that your ASC’s credentialing program is built on a solid foundation and has all of its essential elements in place. From the initial application process through monthly tasks and the re-application process, this webinar will take beginners and those looking for a refresher course on establishing an ASC credentialing program through that process step-by-step, highlighting potential pitfalls and strategies for success along the way. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ credentialing requirements will be presented.
Date/Time: Tuesday, February 5, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Amy Mowles, Chief Executive Officer and President of Mowles Medical Practice Management, LLC
Overview: ASCs face two basic challenges when it comes to retaining their interventional pain management cases:
- Physicians who believe that they would derive increased revenue and find added convenience if they were to treat their patients in their offices rather than an ASC.
- Physicians who want to develop their own ASC or partner with an ASC management company in a new or existing ASC.
Explore the avenues you can and should start taking now to retain this important specialty in your ASC.
Date/Time: Tuesday, January 22, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Reed Martin, Chief Operating Officer, Surgical Management Professionals
Overview: Explore effective strategies that your ASC can use to increase capacity when you are out of space and in a certificate of need (CON) state. Find out how to conduct a strategic analysis of your physical facility, hours of operation, existing efficiencies, block utilization rates, release times and partner relationships to expand patient access to care and the services your ASC provides. Should you move certain cases from your operating rooms (OR) and into your procedure rooms, increase your hours of operation or add additional staff to reduce turnover times and allow more cases per day? If your ASC has a hospital partner, have you considered whether your partner has a CON for an OR that it isn’t using? Case studies demonstrating how these strategies have succeeded in other ASCs will be presented.
Date/Time: Tuesday, January 8, 2013, 1:00 pm ET
Speaker: Michael T. Walsh, MD, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, College of Medicine, Mayo Clinic
Overview: Investigate the risks associated with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), along with strategies for identifying and managing these patients in the outpatient setting. The pros and cons of both the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ “Practice Guidelines for the Perioperative Management of Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea” and the Society of Ambulatory Anesthesia’s more recent “Consensus Statement on Preoperative Selection of Adult Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Scheduled for Ambulatory Surgery” will be examined. Future trends and new technologies in the care of OSA patients will be discussed.