| Thursday, April 28 |
| 9:10 am–10:10 am |
CMS Quality Reporting for ASCs
CMS quality reporting requirements change annually, and your ASC’s ability to adapt could determine whether Medicare reimburses your center fully or imposes payment penalties down the line. Learn which quality reporting measures ASCs need to report now and what steps you must take to meet the requirements. Get definitions, compliance tips and answers to frequently asked questions that will help your ASC report successfully.
AEU Content Area: Quality Management
Faculty:
Gina Throneberry is the Director of Education and Clinical Affairs for the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA). In this role she educates members and non-members to the Medicare Quality Measure Reporting Program for ASCs. She also works with federal agencies (Medicare, CDC, FDA, OSHA) in regards to clinical, regulatory, and quality issues/concerns among the ambulatory surgery center industry. Ms. Throneberry is a board member of the Tennessee Ambulatory Surgery Center Association. She is also a surveyor with the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Healthcare (AAAHC).
Optimize Resource Use and Expense Control
This interactive session will discuss using the resources at your ASC wisely and implementing effective expense control measures, then leverage the experience of attendees in identifying both traditional and unique approaches to KPIs that drive best practices. We will examine unique cost management techniques for complex cases that enhance clinical and financial results and communications with physicians using cost data, resource utilization records and comparative data within your facility to produce results. Leave with a greater understanding of both the art and the science of managing resources, new information about how others in the industry approach change and some innovative ideas involving expense control and best practices.
AEU Content Area: Financial
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Larry Taylor has over 30 years of experience in healthcare delivery, management, and physician relations. Currently serves as Vice President of Business Development for Surgical Care Affiliates. Current responsibilities entail M & A as well as leading the companies de novo process. Prior to joining SCA, he founded Practice Partners in HealthCare, Inc, an ASC company heavily focused on the development of ASC projects. Larry’s commitment to clinical outcomes, patient safety and healthcare providers who deliver them have remained priorities throughout his career. Larry has served as an adjunct professor in healthcare at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, participates as a Board Member on several non-for-profit entities, is a current board member of ASCA and Immediate Past President. He is a graduate of West Virginia University and a Nationally Certified Athletic Trainer and CASC.
Robotics in ASCs
Join this discussion about building a robotics program in your ASC and learn strategies to achieve immediate return on investment (ROI) and service line growth. Specific programmatic examples of purchase to first case in four business days and achieving a five-year ROI in one year will be discussed. We will formulate a surgical market analysis and employ strategic planning and decision making related to robotics systems. We will conduct a detailed evaluation of new robotics technology by service line and analyze the associated value the technology can provide. Strategies for leveraging hospital partner relationships to finance robotic technology will also be examined. Other topics will include how to prepare for robotic technology implementation and how to appraise service line growth.
AEU Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care
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Andrea Lessner is currently the Senior Director of Perioperative Services at USPI's OASIS Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. Andrea has focused her perioperative career in Orthopedic and Neurosurgery service lines and the implementation and execution of robotic technology. In addition to her hands-on clinical experience, she acted as the perioperative clinical supply manager for an Arizona based hospital system where she led value analysis and new product and technology committees reviewing the most current surgical implants and capital technologies. Early recognition of industry site of care changes provided Andrea the opportunity to use her hospital robotics program expertise to design strategy specific to ambulatory surgery centers. Under her direction, robotics cases were performed in just 3 business days after the delivery of their robotic system. Andrea credits multidisciplinary clinical pathways focused on precision and reproducibility for service line success and supports robotics in our value-based care era.
Collect What You're Owed: Strategies for Navigating Workers' Comp, Third-Party Liability and More
Join this discussion about building a robotics program in your ASC and learn strategies to achieve immediate return on investment (ROI) and service line growth. Specific programmatic examples of purchase to first case in four business days and achieving a five-year ROI in one year will be discussed. We will formulate a surgical market analysis and employ strategic planning and decision making related to robotics systems. We will conduct a detailed evaluation of new robotics technology by service line and analyze the associated value the technology can provide. Strategies for leveraging hospital partner relationships to finance robotic technology will also be examined. Other topics will include how to prepare for robotic technology implementation and how to appraise service line growth.
AEU Content Area: Financial
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Jay B. Umansky is an attorney, and principal of THE LAW OFFICES OF JAY B. UMANSKY, P.C., a St. Louis based law firm. A 1979 graduate of St. Louis University School of Law, Mr. Umansky has devoted his forty plus years in the practice exclusively to the representation of creditors, and has become a specialist in the collection needs of health care providers. For fifteen years, Mr. Umansky was the partner supervising the health care unit of the Midwest’s largest creditors’ rights law firm. He decided to form his own firm in order to better meet the needs of his health care clients, and opened his own office in February of 2002. Mr. Umansky has been a frequent lecturer on the subject of creditor’s rights, speaking before the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the American Guild of Patient Accounts Managers, the Clinic Managers Association of Greater St. Louis, the Midwest Healthcare Management Association, the Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, and has been a faculty member speaking before attorneys at seminars sponsored by the Missouri Bar, the Commercial Law League of America, the National Business Institute, Lorman Business Institute, and the University of Missouri, Kansas City Law School.
What You Need to Know to Expand or Remodel Wisely
Adding caseload, a specialty or equipment/technology? This healthcare architect recommends, first, define your goal(s) and, second, determine where to make the necessary changes. Gain a deeper understanding of how to avoid the expansion and remodeling pitfalls that can cost you significant time and money and undermine your success. Advice for staying operational during construction and ways an expansion can trigger new regulatory requirements for your ASC will be discussed.
AEU Content Area: Regulatory and Legal Issues
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My architectural firm, Marasco & Associates, has helped design/develop over 400 ASCs across the country, making our experience, thus expertise, unmatched in the industry. We have helped complete dozens of additions/remodels and understand the complexities of this type of project. I have lectured at AAASC, ASCA, Becker’s ASC, OOSS… & written for The Monitor, OR Today, SurgiStrategies, Outpatient Surgery… on ASC design/development. I was the first architect to be recognized by Today’s Surgicenter as a “Who’s Who in the Ambulatory Surgery Industry.”
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| 11:15 am–12:15 pm |
A Case Study in Culture Change
The culture of an organization can decide the success or failure of a business. Join this session to discuss several scenarios where the culture was negatively impacting an organization and how a culture shift occurred. Real-life situations will illustrate culture change and give participants tools to use in their own environment. Learn how to create the culture you desire in your own space.
AEU Content Area: Quality Management
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For over 20 years, Janie Kinsey has been serving and delivering excellence to the healthcare industry. She is a seasoned veteran who genuinely loves what she does. Her passion dates back to 1998 when she began her career as a surgical nurse. Janie later grew into an administrative role where she managed staff members and directly focused on patient satisfaction. With CASC credentials, Janie strives to provide progressive care by developing and implementing programs that improve patient experience. Janie stays active in the healthcare community by attending conferences, speaking at events, and serving as a board member. Janie enjoys speaking on various topics and interacting with her peers in the healthcare field. She currently serves the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association as the Vice President of the Board of Directors. Personally, she enjoys spending time with her family and traveling.
Improve Your Case Costing, Improve Your ASC
Are your top procedures as profitable as you think? Should you buy that expensive piece of equipment? Take a close look at some common ASC procedures, including the cost of labor, basic supplies, implants and drugs involved, to uncover all the elements you need to consider to determine your overall case cost. Examples of revenue by payer will be used to show how your case margins can differ significantly between payers. Discussion will include ways to reduce case costs and how to message changes to physicians when needed. End the session with a look at a scenario that will help you determine whether investing in an expensive new service line makes sense based on the equipment costs and expected profit per case.
AEU Content Area: Financial
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For the past five years, Mr. Fazio has been a senior director of financial analysis for the ambulatory surgery center division of Community Health Systems. Mr. Fazio's primary responsibilities in his current role include managed care analysis, case costing, and financial modeling for potential de novo projects or acquisitions. Prior to his current role, he spent more than eighteen years as a healthcare equity analyst for several Wall Street firms.
Deliver Personalized Patient Communication by Balancing In-Person and Electronic Interactions
As the world of healthcare shifts to meet patients’ growing expectations for digital communication, moments of human interaction remain essential. Get strategies for meeting patients’ individualized communication needs by exploring current trends in the use of communication technology and techniques that continue to recognize the value of in-person care.
AEU Content Area: Quality Management
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Pauline Wilson is an Associate Vice President of Patient Relationship Solutions, Revenue Management at AMSURG Corp. Over the course of her 20 years at AMSURG, she has worked in Finance, Marketing, Business Operations and Revenue Management in addition to collaborating with senior leadership, stakeholders, and various other departments. Currently, Pauline is primarily responsible for patient engagement and satisfaction across all centers with a specific focus on the business office. Her work involves providing customer service content and training at the corporate office and at centers, performing assessments to improve efficiency at front offices in the ASC and practices, and managing and co-writing business office policies.
Pauline holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and an Master’s in Business Administration from Tennessee State University. She currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee.
Pediatrics in the ASC
Pediatric ASCs are different from other ASCs. Look at the unique approaches these centers take to preparing, admitting, caring for and discharging their young patients and discuss the common surgical specialties and procedures these ASCs perform. Key concerns that affect the success of pediatric outpatient surgery will be discussed.
AEU Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care
Faculty:
Michael S. Powers, MBA, RRT -Administrator, Children’s West Surgery Center which is a pediatric, free standing ambulatory surgery center in Knoxville TN. Michael has over 35 years of healthcare experience with many of those years being focused on Pediatric Ambulatory Surgical Care. He is currently a member of the TASCA Board of Directors and participates on the legislative committee. Michael’s accomplishments include being published in professional journals for both pediatric surgery center administration and studies performed in the field of respiratory care. He was also listed twice by Becker ASC Review as an ASC administrator to know. His hobbies include just about anything to do with the outdoors and traveling.
Collaboration Is Key: Divvy Up Responsibilities to Ensure Infection Prevention Success
Whether your ASC is able to designate a staff member to infection prevention (IP) full time or not, ensuring patient safety should be everyone’s job. Collaborating with your team can support your center’s IP program objectives. This session will help you determine which IP responsibilities to divide and how to use the resources and staff available to you to meet your IP goals. This session will also review CMS’ IP requirements and how to create a team that can best support your ASC’s IP goals, objectives, policies and procedures. Collaborative efforts, such as empowering staff, assigning specific duties and resources, and supporting communication will be addressed.
AEU Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care
IPCH Content Area: Infection Prevention Program Development, Implementation and Maintenance
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Fawn Esser-Lipp has been in the OR for over 20 years and has held various positions, including SPD and scrub nursing. Fawn is currently the Executive Director for a multi-specialty ASC in a suburb of Milwaukee WI. She has held the role of Infection Prevention Coordinator in the past and has helped to train the current infection prevention coordinator. Currently Fawn serves on the COVID Task Force at her center, as well as in charge of Risk Management and Quality Assurance. She serves on her state's ASC Board Association (WISCA), maintains various certifications in the nursing and OR industry, and has been part of the ASCA community for the past 10 years.
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| 2:20 pm–3:50 pm |
Managing the Middle of Your Income Statement
Want to boost your ASC's bottom line? Try "managing the middle" of your income statement, where the expenses of your business reside. This session will offer real-life solutions to limiting and reducing costs. We will discuss controlling salaries and wages through an effective productivity monitoring system and how to gain savings on supplies, purchased services, professional fees, facility and operating lease costs, and other expenses that may be plaguing your ASC.
AEU Content Area: Financial
Faculty:
For the past five years, Mr. Fazio has been a senior director of financial analysis for the ambulatory surgery center division of Community Health Systems. Mr. Fazio's primary responsibilities in his current role include managed care analysis, case costing, and financial modeling for potential de novo projects or acquisitions. Prior to his current role, he spent more than eighteen years as a healthcare equity analyst for several Wall Street firms.
Terry is Vice President of Ambulatory Surgery Centers for Community Health Systems in Nashville, Tennessee. Terry served as President of the national ASC Association (ASCA) from 2014 to 2016 and as President of the California Surgery Center Association (CASA) from 2012 to 2014. Terry was Vice President of Operations for two national surgery center companies and has been Administrator of a large, multi-specialty ASC.
Terry is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA) and a Certified Administrator Surgery Center (CASC). He holds a master’s degree in Healthcare Administration and an undergraduate degree in Accounting. He served as adjunct assistant professor at the University of Florida in the Masters in Healthcare Administration program. He retired as Commander in the United States Navy Reserve after 24 years of military service.
Managing Your Top Revenue Cycle Metrics
Learn how your ASC can use sophisticated analytics to track its performance and guide its future clinical and business decisions. Discuss how to access this critical data, which top revenue cycle metrics you should be tracking, and how to analyze your data and apply what you learn.
AEU Content Area: Financial
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Nader Samii, as CEO of National Medical Billing Services, has guided the company into its position as the largest and most reputable revenue cycle management company in the ASC market. Nader leads the company’s strategic direction with a strong emphasis on exceptional client services, lean and efficient processes, cutting edge technologies, and insightful analytics. Prior to National Medical, Nader was the co-founder and President of Ajuba International, a leading healthcare revenue cycle outsourcing company that was created in 2001 and grew to approximately 2,000 employees by 2009. Prior to Ajuba, Nader was an investment banker at both Merrill Lynch and Dillon Read & Co. (now UBS Securities) and also served as a corporate finance attorney at the 400-member law firm of Dykema Gossett.
His business experience and understanding of the ASC market has created deep consultative ties with our clients. Nader is currently a member of the Public Affairs Committee for the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association, as well as an active member of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Nader has a BBA/BA in finance/economics from the University of Notre Dame, where he played on the Men’s Varsity Tennis team, and he has a JD/MBA from the University of Wisconsin.
Total Joint Replacements (TJR) in the ASC
TJR in ASCs has become more commonplace in the last few years. Mississippi Valley Surgery Center in Davenport, Iowa, has been performing them for more than 15 years. Learn how the ASC entered into the next phase of this industry with the addition of the Mako robot, AAAHC advanced certification, and partnerships with payers. Review these new opportunities and how your ASC can capitalize on the growing trend of TJR in the ASC.
AEU Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care
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Michael J. Patterson is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mississippi Valley Health.
For the past 20 years, his professional career has encompassed a variety of positions in healthcare ranging from a Registered Nurse in a Level I Trauma Center to the Chief Administrative Officer of a 350 bed community hospital and Chief Nurse Executive of a 3 hospital health system.
Michael has served over 23 years in both the Active and Reserve components of the US Navy and was deployed multiple times to provide Trauma care around the world. He retired with full honors in 2012.
Michael is a graduate of Northern Illinois University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and the University of Illinois at Chicago with a Master of Science in Nursing where he was awarded the Distinguished Nurse Alumnus in 2010. He is also a Fellow in the American College of Healthcare Executives.
ASC Joint Ventures: Achieving Success, Maintaining Independence
Many hospitals and physicians interested in partnering on ASC joint ventures do not know how to begin and proceed successfully. Examine recent trends in ASC joint ventures, dos and don’ts for both partners, and the results of a national hospital executive survey on ASC joint ventures, now in its fifth year. Learn what is required for creating a solid foundation for a successful ASC joint venture, including how to achieve the appropriate balance of hospital and physician involvement and oversight.
AEU Content Area: Financial
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| 4:15 pm–5:30 pm |
Epidemiology and Disease Transmission in the ASC
An ASC’s Infection Preventionist investigates disease outbreaks and surgical site infections that occur shortly after a patient visits the facility. Review the basic epidemiology and microbiology needed to do a thorough investigation and consider common and uncommon pathogens found in the ASC. Discuss the disease transmission process, including a review of epidemiologic control and prevention measures beginning with the patient at home and extending throughout the surgical experience. This session is a must for Infection Preventionists who want to fully understand which pathogens require swift and thorough investigation.
AEU Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care
IPCH Content Area: Infection Prevention Strategies
Faculty:
Lisa Berus, RN, MSN, MEd, CASSPT, CNAMB, CAIP
Emergency Preparedness: What We've Learned from the Pandemic
From supply chain to staffing to patient care, the COVID-19 pandemic gave us many opportunities to test our systems. It also changed our perspective on how prepared we are for events like these and how we protect our team and our patients during a public health emergency. For many of us, this rapidly evolving crisis has been the greatest challenge of our careers. Join this session to look into the future and the ways we can apply what we learned during the pandemic about acquiring the supplies we need, continuing to care for patients and supporting our communities and local hospitals, even those filled to capacity and struggling to provide emergency and life-saving care to patients in need. We will also examine the role ASCs can play in continuing to provide safe, high-quality outpatient surgery during a public health emergency.
AEU Content Area: Regulatory and Legal Issues
Faculty:
Mary K. Ryan, RN, BSN, MBA, CAIP, CASC
Rebuilding Your Team during a Pandemic
As COVID-19 continues to challenge families, overburden healthcare and compromise teams, a new employee-driven playbook that puts the mental well-being, psychological safety and emotional needs of our ASC teams first has emerged. Ways we supported individuals prior to the COVID-19 pandemic will not sustain teams in the future as we move from this crisis to the next. Rebuilding your ASC team to reflect the new reality is essential for patient care, staff retention and individual wellness. Join this session to look at the impact of the pressure performance curve, new realities for healthcare employers and what your leadership needs to do in response.
AEU Content Area: Human Resources
Faculty:
Heather Lambert, MLIS, MA
2022: An ASC Spine Surgery Odyssey
Spine surgery in 2022 continues to be a growth opportunity for ASCs thanks to evolving surgical techniques, protocol-driven management and the growing acceptance among payers. Built specifically to provide spine surgery, DISC’s progressive facilities specialize in high-quality, cost-efficient care, and partner with patients and carriers to remain at the cutting edge of one of surgery’s hottest specialties. Whether you are in a one-OR ASC and "sometimes do spine," a large ASC that is already performing multiple spine procedures successfully or something in between, join this session to learn how these centers are leading the migration of high-acuity cases from hospitals to outpatient ORs. Knowledge about infrastructure, patient care protocols, staff and facility organization that can help you make the most of this growth opportunity in your own facility will be shared.
AEU Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care
Faculty:
Karen Reiter, RN, CNOR, RNFA, CASC
The Tech-Enabled ASC: How Innovation Can Keep ASCs Competitive and Viable
ASCs are facing unprecedented levels of competition for surgical cases, physicians, staff, payer contracts and more. While the ASC model is ripe for success in a healthcare environment increasingly focused on high quality and low costs, individual facility success will be largely dependent on a center's ability to become the provider of choice for its market. Innovative solutions are playing an increasingly important role in achieving this critical objective. This presentation will highlight the wide range of innovations currently available and making their way into the market to support all aspects of an ASC's operations, including patient/physician engagement tools, robotics, artificial intelligence, RFID, telemedicine, and all the other innovation buzzwords being thrown around today.
AEU Content Area: Financial
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