NJASC Review

NJASC Review Agenda:

• Welcoming remarks by Mark Manigan and Andrew Weiss, CASC, Administrator of The Endo Center at Voorhees and President of the NJAASC.

• Federal Public Policy Update by William Prentice, Executive Director, ASCA.

• New Jersey Healthcare Delivery System: State of Play -- a panel discussion with Matthew Fulton, FACHE, Senior Vice President, Business Development of RWJ Barnabas Health; John H. Hajjar, MD, CEO, Sovereign Medical Group; and Kevin Joyce, COO, QualCare; moderated by Mark Manigan.

• Latest Trends in ASC Mergers and Acquisitions, presented by Henry Bloom, Founder and President, and Robert Goettling, Principal, The Bloom Organization, LLC.

• NJ Public Policy Review – with State Assemblyman Herb Conaway, Jr. (Chair, NJ Assembly Health and Senior Services Committee) and Senator Joseph Vitale (Chair, NJ Senate Health and Senior Services Committee); moderated by Mark Manigan.

• National ASC Company Perspective – Brett Brodnax, President, United Surgical Partners International (USPI); Barry Tanner, President, CEO, Physicians Endoscopy, and Jeff Forshee, Vice President, Health Systems Development, AmSurg.

• New Jersey – Insurance Company Perspective – presented by Allen J. Karp, Senior Vice President, Healthcare Management, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey.

• One Room Mergers and Acquisitions – Moderator: Mark Manigan with presenters Henry H. Bloom of The Bloom Organization, LLC, Barry Tanner of Physicians Endoscopy, and Sudeep Sign, CFA, Vice President, Development, USPI.

• Coding Audits and Reimbursement Disputes – presented by Keith Roberts, Partner, Brach Eichler.

• Hot Topics: Medicare and NJ Department of Health Inspections – Stefanie Mozgai, Assistant Commissioner, NJ Department of Health.

• New Jersey Board of Medical Examiners Oversight of One Room ASCs – Moderator: Keith Roberts of Brach Eichler with Bindi Merchant, Deputy Attorney General, NJ Board of Medical Examiners and Sindy Paul, M.D., Medical Director, NJ Board of Medical Examiners.

• Hot Topics: NJ Department of Health Licensure and Surgical Practice Registration – Moderator: John D. Fanburg, partner and chair of the health law practice at Brach Eichler with John Calabria, Director, NJ Department of Health and Senior Services and Edward Hetrick, President , CEO, Facility Development & Management, LLC.