progrAm ascassociation.org/ASCA2013 If you own, manage or work in an ASC—or want to connect with those who do— WHO you should attend ASCA 2013. SHOULD Join ASCA in Boston for the largest ASC meeting of the year to connect with thought ATTEND? leaders in the ASC community, ASC owners, business management experts and top ASC administrators and staff. Investigate the business models and techniques you can use to protect and grow your ASC now and in the future. 2 www.ascassociation.org/ASCA2013 WHAT’S Along with global insights into the marketplace trends and regulatory developments that are redefining the ways ASCs do business, ASCA 2013 will provide practical, hands- ON THE on information and advice that can help you navigate the challenges you face every PROGRAM? day. Come to ASCA 2013 to find real-world solutions and advice for • Surviving drug shortages and manag- • Best practices in benchmarking, billing ing your pharmaceutical supplies and coding • Complying with the occupational • Resolving human resources challenges Safety and Health Administration’s • Supporting the ASC advocacy agenda requirements, medicare’s new quality in Washington, DC, and your state in reporting program, medicare’s Condi- 2013 and beyond tions for Coverage, accreditation stan- dards, the Life Safety Code and more In the face of the dramatic changes taking • Credentialing and peer review place in the health care marketplace and the fragile US economy confronting all • Managing anesthesia in your ASC health care providers today, you can’t • Implementing a compliant afford not to be at ASCA 2013! Quality Assessment performance Improvement program VISIT THE EXHIBIT HALL FOR: • Networking opportunities with • One-of-a-kind savings available the most ASC product and service exclusively at ASCA 2013; and providers that will come together • The opportunity for multiple in any one place this year; door prizes, including several • New technology and innovations $500 drawings! that can help you cut expenses and secure the financial viability of your ASC; and GOLD SPONSORS Questions? Contact ASCA at 703.836.5904 3 SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 pre-meeTINg WorkSHopS 8:00am–6:00pm Hr Issues in the ASC 4:00pm–5:00pm 5:30pm–7:00pm CASC review Course preparing for AAAHC Specialty-Specific Welcome reception Accreditation Interactive Sessions 1:00pm–5:00pm • GI preparing for Joint Achieving and maintaining • multi-Specialty Commission Accreditation Life Safety Code Compliance • ophthalmology • ortho/pain THURSDAY, APRIL 18 FRIDAY, APRIL 19 7:00am–8:00am Strategies to Combat market Health System 8:00am–10:00am Consolidation ASC Transactions exHIBIT HALL geNerAL SessioN CoNTINental managing Controlled 12:00pm–2:00pm A View from the front Line BreAkfast Substances in Your ASC exHIBIT HALL peer review essentials keynote presentation 7:00am–2:00pm & LUNCHeoN You gotta Be kidding me!... 9:00am–11:00am 5:30pm–6:30pm Are We STILL Talking about exHIBIT HALL opeN 2:00pm–3:00pm Artificial Nails? really? exHIBIT HALL opeN BreAkoUT SessioNS 10:00am–11:00am 8:00am–10:00am Building and Sustaining a 4:30pm–5:30pm exHIBIT HALL geNerAL SessioN Culture of Safety BreAkoUT SessioNS CmS Quality reporting DrawingS and ASCA’s Annual Daily and monthly for ASCs Coffee BreAk membership meeting Dashboard Statistics Credentialing physicians, Staff keynote presentation medication Safety in the ASC and Vendors 11:00am–12:00pm moderate Sedation: Are financial Benchmarking 101 BreAkoUT SessioNS 10:00am–11:00am We managing It properly? exHIBIT HALL Nursing Documentation Best practices for peer review and the National pre-Admission Areas Coffee BreAk oSHA: Are You Compliant? practitioner Data Bank (Also offered Friday at 11:00am) Clinical Benchmarking 101 The Ins and outs of 11:00am–12:00pm ASC Billing federal Affairs Update 3:00pm–3:15pm BreAkoUT SessioNS Using Case Costing and payer online pre-op Screening: A AfTerNooN BreAk Win–Win for patients, Staff Duties and responsibilities of Contract performance to Improve Your Bottom Line and Administrators Your ASC’s governing Board 3:15pm–4:15pm oSHA: Are You Compliant? emerging Trends in 5:30pm–6:30pm (Also offered Thursday at 2:00pm) orthopedics BreAkoUT SessioNS NeTWorkINg protecting patients’ rights following the Standards to Anesthesia in an ASC: in Your ASC: What’s New reduce patient risk Coverage, Compliance and reCepTIoN Controversies in Compliance, Audits and managing Drug Shortages Certification? financial Benchmarking 201 State Affairs Update 4 www.ascassociation.org/ASCA2013 FRIDAY, APRIL 19 12:00pm–2:00pm medicare Inspections and CeLeBratioN Survey readiness LUNCHeoN Clinical and Comfort Benefits of prewarming ASC patients 2:00pm–3:00pm 3:15pm–4:45pm BreAkoUT SessioNS PaneL DISCUSSIoN Best Business office practices: Assessing the Current Trends and Issues in Success of Your Coding and Ambulatory Anesthesia (90 minute session) Billing Department SATURDAY, APRIL 20 overexposure: risks related to Disclosure of preoperative 4:30pm–5:30pm 7:30am–8:30am Leveraging the relationship Testing results to Third parties BreAkoUT SessioNS CoNTINental with Your Vendor patient Collections You Can The Company model: Analysis Brag About Dilemmas in the Age of BreAkfast Social Networking of the oIg opinion pharmaceutical Waste Legal and Compliance Issues 7:30am–8:30am management Challenges and 9:45am–10:00am opportunities in Anesthesia Arrangements: BreAkoUT SessioNS maintaining High Quality morNINg BreAk preventing Surgical fires Anesthesia in Your ASC Clarifying the processes: The Safe Surgery Checklist moving the Needle on Supply Sequela monitoring, 10:00am–12:00pm and the ASC Chain excellence Sentinel events and root CLoSINg SessioN Cause Analysis Surgical Site Infection: Congressional Speaker—TBA 3:00pm–3:15pm Dealing effectively with A Nurse’s perspective Tonya reiman, America’s AfTerNooN BreAk Difficult Surgeons The five Tenets of Highly Body Language expert effective employee risk Directed or Self-Directed 3:15pm–4:15pm Closing remarks management: Using Learning, That Is the Question BreAkoUT SessioNS progressive Discipline to effective Approaches to 12:00pm Avoid employee Litigation Unexpected Clinical events Clinical Benchmarking 201: CoNfereNCe Weight Loss and gastric moving from Data Collection 6:00pm–10:00pm AdjoUrns to performance Improvement reduction Surgery: SoCIAL eVeNT at THe An Update 1:00pm–5:00pm Deadly Caring: The effects HArvarD Club of Substance Abuse on 8:45am–9:45am opTIoNAL ToUrS perioperative Care givers • John f. kennedy presiden- BreAkoUT SessioNS High-Level Disinfection and tial Library and museum Technician Certification A Collaborative Approach to • Academic World of Disaster preparedness Cambridge—massachusetts CmS Audits: Top Seven medical Institute of Technology Documentation risk Areas in (mIT) and Harvard the ASC and How to reduce University Tour revenue and Compliance risk emrs: “The good, the Bad 1:30pm–5:00pm and the Ugly” CASC exAm Questions? Contact ASCA at 703.836.5904 5 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 SCHEDULE WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17 tied to the Life Safety Code, regard- 1:00pm–5:00pm less of prior approval. This session will Preparing for AAAHC Accreditation pre-meeTINg WorkSHopS identify and explore those requirements Led by experienced Accreditation Registration required and potential complications involving Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) surveyors, this pre- 8:00am–6:00pm local and state requirements. processes meeting workshop will review AAAHC CASC Review Course for ensuring initial approval and main- standards, provide tips on compliance Interested in becoming CASC (Certified taining continuous compliance will be and help your ASC prepare for a Administrator Surgery Center) certified? presented. Leave this session better AAAHC accreditation survey. If you are planning to take the CASC informed than many of the regulatory exam, or just want a review of the key officials and design professionals that Member: $125, Full price: $255 areas of ASC administration, this course you will encounter. Raymond E. Grundman, MSN MPA is for you. Designed for those with ASC Member: $125, Full price: $255 FNP-BC CASC experience and knowledge, this course Nancy Jo Vinson, RN BA CASC William E. Lindeman, AIA NCARB will review key topics in the five content Accreditation Association for ASComply.Com & WEL Designs PLC areas of the CASC exam: regulatory and Ambulatory Health Care legal issues, finance, delivery of patient care, quality management and human 1:00pm–5:00pm 1:00pm–5:00pm HR Issues in the ASC resources. each content area will be Preparing for Joint Commission covered by expert faculty. Actual test In this four-hour, interactive workshop, Accreditation questions will not be provided. marcus Crider, a partner with Waller Join this overview of Joint Commission law firm, will cover a variety of employ- accreditation standards to get the tools Member: $250, Full price: $365 ment law and human resources (Hr) you need to ensure continuous compli- Chris E. Bockelman, CPA CASC issues common to ASCs. engage with ance and operational improvement at Foundation Surgery Center of Oklahoma Crider and fellow attendees in lively your ASC. Learn about recent changes Norman L. Burnette, Jr., CPA CASC discussions about critical issues, such in the standards and the keys to success Baylor Surgicare at Fort Worth I & II as using social media safely and effec- for the on-site accreditation survey. tively; conducting effective workplace Raymond Grundman, MSN MPA Member: $125, Full price: $255 investigations; dealing with co-worker FNP-BC CASC Jay R. Afrow, DMD MHA or supervisor harassment; managing the Accreditation Association for The Joint Commission problem employee; getting buy-in from Ambulatory Health Care your supervisors; untangling the ADA/ Mary K. Ryan, RN MBA CASC fmLA/workers’ compensation web; and Tri-State Surgery Center 4:00pm–5:00pm avoiding common wage and hour pit- Specialty-Specific Interactive Sessions Debra Stinchcomb, RN BSN CASC falls. In the final portion of the program, Progressive Surgical Solutions, LLC Crider will moderate a panel discussion get to know and exchange ideas with your of Hr professionals from leading ASC colleagues who work in ASCs that serve 1:00pm–5:00pm companies.