| 7:00am–7:30am |
Location: Exhibition Area
Description: Start your day off with breakfast in the exhibition area. Breakfast is scheduled to include a variety of juices, fruits, bagels, breakfast bakeries and coffee.
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| 7:30am–8:30am |
Faculty:
Marcus Crider, JD
Content Area:
Human Resources
Description: Your ASC’s employees and physicians are among the 1.15 billion active Facebook users, 500 million Twitter users and 238 million LinkedIn users in the world today. Like it or not, social media is revolutionizing the way we live and fundamentally altering how we communicate and do business. Get practical advice for managing the complex employment issues that social networking raises in your ASC, including how to minimize potential liability from improper use and avoiding National Labor Relations Board scrutiny.
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| 7:30am–8:30am |
Faculty:
Cristina Bentin, CMA, CCS-P, COC, CPPM, AAPC Fellow
Content Area:
Financial
Description: Get an update on new, revised and deleted CPT codes in 2019 as they pertain to those indicated on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) List of ASC Covered Surgical Procedures. American Medical Association applications and scenarios for reporting the new CPT codes, as well as reimbursement changes from a CMS perspective for established codes, will be discussed.
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| 7:30am–8:30am |
Faculty:
Deborah Mack, BSN, CNOR, CASC
Content Area:
Patient Care; Program Development, Implementation & Maintenance
Description: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services requires that ASCs have "a licensed health care professional qualified through training in infection control and designated to direct the ASC's infection control program." Focus on the key components of an ASC infection prevention program that are the responsibility of the infection preventionist and get guidance on how to comply. Identify ways the role of infection preventionist integrates with a multi-disciplinary approach toward a comprehensive quality assurance and performance improvement program.
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| 8:35am–10:05am |
Faculty:
John Goehle, MBA, CPA, CASC
Content Area:
Financial
Description: Participate in this hands-on introductory course to learn how to read the basic financial statements used in ASCs (Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement) and how to evaluate common ASC financial transactions. Review standard ASC financial metrics, how to calculate them and where to get meaningful benchmarks.
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| 8:35am–10:05am |
Faculty:
Mandeara Frye, CPC, CPMA
Content Area:
Financial
Description: Gain a deeper understanding of general surgery guidelines as they apply to the ASC setting. Break down the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI) manual and other references to ensure accurate, compliant coding with optimal reimbursement. Review common procedures and real-world examples.
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| 8:35am–10:05am |
Faculty:
Tammy Tyler, RN, CIC
Content Area:
Patient Care; Surveillance, Data Collection & Analysis
Description: Get to know the updated Medicare ASC Infection Control Surveyor Worksheet like you’ve never known it before and how to put it to work inside your ASC to drive critical change and lasting improvement. Working with other ASC professionals, take a deep dive into the different sections of the worksheet. Identify and share challenges and successes related to compliance, explore the expectations of surveying authorities and find the ways your ASC can benefit.
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| 10:05am-10:30am |
Location: Main Foyer
Description: Enjoy a coffee or tea as you visit vendor exhibits.
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| 10:30am–12:00pm |
Faculty:
Christopher Dembny, RPh
Content Area:
Regulatory/Legal
Description: Explore ways to avoid and navigate common pharmacy concerns in the ASC setting, including drug shortages, 503B outsourcing facilities, narcotic diversion and the opioid crisis, and infection control within United States Pharmacopeia (USP) 797. Discuss relevant guidelines from the Drug Enforcement Administration, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Food and Drug Administration, USP and accrediting organizations.
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| 10:30am–12:00pm |
Faculty:
Jenny Mead
Content Area:
Financial
Description: Focus on the most commonly performed hip, knee and podiatry arthroscopic and open procedures performed in ASCs. Review reimbursement/clinical coding guidelines, case examples and industry standards and changes.
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| 10:30am–12:00pm |
Faculty:
Michelle McKinley, LVN, CRCST, CIS, CHL, AGTS, ASQ, CMQ/OE
Content Area:
Patient Care; Instrument/Equipment Cleaning, Disinfection & Sterilization
Description: 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 ASC can put in place to ensure compliance. Use the information from this session as a template of compliance you can carry back to your ASC. If you’re planning on expanding your service line or made a change recently, you won’t want to miss this session.
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| 12:00pm–12:45pm |
Location: Main Foyer
Description: Network with friends and exhibitors while enjoying a delicious meal!
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| 12:00pm–12:45pm |
Affiliate Lab Presentation:
by HSTpathways
Room: 614
Description: Are you looking to maximize your efficiency across your center from scheduling to charting to billing, and making patient care & safety improvements? How can you improve your supply chain costs, measure your case costs easily, or improve your revenue cycle management with faster collections? Robert Marinich, Vice President at HSTpathways, will show you how utilizing HST’s integrated platform will help you reach your goals faster, and with more accurate and measurable outcomes.
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| 12:45pm–1:45pm |
Faculty:
Tom Stallings
Laurie Roderiques
Content Area:
Quality
Description: Get the help you need to create a meaningful peer review program that meets regulatory requirements, manages legal risk and promotes buy-in from your reviewing physicians. At this interactive and entertaining session, you’ll examine peer review essentials from administrative, accreditation, policy, risk management and legal perspectives. Look at real-world case studies, get answers to your most challenging questions and walk away with practical tools you can use at your ASC the day you return home. Improperly-handled peer review can be financially and operationally disastrous. Review your ASC’s peer review process before you become entangled in a lawsuit.
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| 12:45pm–1:45pm |
Faculty:
Juanita Mendoza, CPC
Content Area:
Financial
Description: Find out how to maximize reimbursement while remaining compliant with federal and payer guidelines. Get answers to common questions such as: What are the differences between screening, surveillance and diagnostic colonoscopies? How do the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Local Coverage Determinations and commercial payer coverage guidelines affect your bottom line? What can you do to minimize denials and ensure first-run payments on claims? Review the practical applications of the operative report.
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| 12:45pm–1:45pm |
Faculty:
Stanford Plavin, MD
Content Area:
Patient Care; Education & Training
Description: Reduce infections in your ASC with this overview of infections in outpatient surgery and the role of your anesthesia team in helping to prevent them. Examine predictors of infections, ways your anesthesia team can identify and eliminate them, techniques for eliminating undesirable anesthesia practices that can contribute to infections common in outpatient surgery and actions you can expect your anesthesia team to take to prevent infections in your ASC.
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| 1:50pm–2:50pm |
Faculty:
Lenora Woolsey, RN, MSN, CNOR
Content Area:
Financial
Description: Your employees are essential to the success of your ASC. Join this session to get the tools and tactics you need to evaluate staffing strategically and rightsize for the needs of your workday. Find out how to build your team for flexibility, reduce labor cost, prevent bottlenecks and assign staff efficiently. Balancing the number of employees and hours worked in your ASC will enhance your ability to meet the expectations of your patients and physicians.
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| 1:50pm–2:50pm |
Faculty:
Alison Kuley, CPC
Content Area:
Financial
Description: Spine procedures are migrating to the ASC setting. Take a close-up look at the best ways to navigate through both basic and advanced spine coding while remaining compliant and maximizing revenue. Leave with important recommendations that can help you ensure timely and accurate payments while reducing denials.
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| 1:50pm–2:50pm |
Faculty:
Ann Geier, MS, RN, CNOR, CASC
Content Area:
Patient Care; Education & Training
Description: 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/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.
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| 2:50pm–3:05pm |
Location: Main Foyer
Description: Enjoy a coffee or tea as you visit vendor exhibits.
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| 3:05pm–4:05pm |
Faculty:
Cristina Bentin, CMA, CCS-P, COC, CPPM, AAPC Fellow
Content Area:
Financial
Description: Despite extensive media coverage regarding the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance audits and penalties, reasonable assurance practices related to business associates and vendors still come up short. Review your ASC’s responsibilities related to your business associates’ adherence to HIPAA’s Privacy and Security Rules and some common justifications business associates use to bypass HIPAA requirements. Re-examine your ASC’s privacy and security policies and procedures and investigate your options when a business associate isn’t compliant with HIPAA’s Privacy and Security Rules. Learn key areas of the Business Associate Agreement (BAA) that are frequently overlooked but essential when collaborating with a business associate/vendor.
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| 3:05pm–4:05pm |
Faculty:
Juanita Mendoza, CPC
Content Area:
Financial
Description: Review the most common urology and gynecology procedures performed in ASCs, including brachytherapy, cystoscopy, TURP, UroLift®, colporrhaphy, laparoscopy, hysteroscopy and procedures for urinary incontinence. Discuss the importance of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Local Coverage Determinations and commercial payer coverage guidelines.
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| 3:05pm–4:05pm |
Faculty:
Bill Schmelzer
Content Area:
Patient Care; Infection Prevention Strategies
Description: Listen to the story of the presenter’s personal experience with a surgical site infection and level three sepsis. With 30 years in the Surgical and Infection Prevention division of Kimberly-Clark and the spin-off Halyard Health, Schmelzer came into his experience with a serious hospital-acquired surgical site infection with a knowledge of the hospital, the surgical environment and the risks associated with septic bacteremia and methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). In his presentation, he will share his story, observations and reflections on what happened and the aftermath.
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| 4:10pm–5:10pm |
Faculty:
Ann Geier, MS, RN, CNOR, CASC
Content Area:
Financial
Description: Supply chain management requires a high level of attention to detail and begins with the basic setup. Make sure your ASC is prepared to manage start-up, routine tasks and special orders effectively during the life of your ASC.
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| 4:10pm–5:10pm |
Faculty:
Crystal DeMario, CPC, CIRCC, CASCC
Content Area:
Financial
Description: As ASCs continue to diversify the procedures they can perform, ASC coders face unique coding challenges for services they may not have encountered before. Join this session for a deep dive into two of those areas: dialysis access interventions and peripheral arterial disease procedures. Proper coding for these interventions requires an understanding of complex surgical procedures such as atherectomy, angioplasty, stent, thrombectomy and more. Please join us for this discussion of the anatomy and terminology, CPT guidelines, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ guidelines, appropriate modifiers and coding nuances for these ASC procedures.
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| 4:10pm–5:10pm |
Faculty:
Lori Pacheco
Content Area:
Patient Care; Instrument/Equipment Cleaning, Disinfection & Sterilization
Description: Examine best practices and recommendations for operating a sterile processing environment based on Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI), Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) and accreditation standards. Describe the effects of Toxic Anterior Segment Syndrome (TASS) and its relationship to decontamination, processing and sterilization of instrumentation. Focus on care, handling, cleaning and sterilization of surgical instrumentation according to manufacturer's instructions for use (IFU) and the proper way to perform Immediate Use and Steam Sterilization (IUSS), also known as “flashing.”
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