11:00 am–12:00 pm |
Take a deep dive into the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) requirements that apply in your ASC, including registrations, common questions and a focus on managing controlled substances in light of the opioid epidemic. The session will include a discussion on propofol and its possibility of being scheduled, an overview of e-prescribing and other DEA-related updates.
AEU Content Area: Regulatory and Legal Issues
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Dennis Wichern is a partner in Prescription Drug Consulting LLC, focusing on medical prescriber protection, compliance, and risk mitigation. His experience includes 30 years of public service as a DEA Special Agent retiring in 2018 as the Special Agent in Charge of the Chicago Field Division where he directed all federal operations in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota with a team of approximately 550 employees.
Dennis is a recognized expert on the dangers of heroin and the prescription drug opioid epidemic and routinely speaks to healthcare providers to identify methods to better safeguard their practices and reduce the professional and operational risks emanating from these threats. Dennis was the first to develop basic and advanced CME prescription drug classes focusing on prescriber safeguards, ASC's, DEA compliance, MAT, pain and drug destruction.
Whether you are building a new surgery center or expanding an existing one, it is important to build enough space and not to over-build. You also need to identify and address many regulatory, accreditation and life safety issues. Walk through the process of renovation and construction, beginning with the components needed to help develop a feasible pro forma. Get insights into securing an architect, selecting a construction firm, your CEO's role in construction, infection prevention measures you need to take and ways to maintain case volume during a renovation project.
AEU Content Area: Financial
IPCH Content Area: Infection Prevention Strategies
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Lisa Berus is Director of Clinical Education and Training for Surgical Care Affiliates. Lisa has 30 years of experience in the ASC industry and has been doing infection prevention for over 25 years. She has developed programs to train new infection preventionists and is certified in sterile processing and holds the CAIP certification.
Lisa has worked in every area of the surgery center including circulating, scrubbing, safety officer, infection preventionist, business office manager, administrator and corporate clinical leader. She has been the project manager for multiple de novo surgery center builds and renovation projects. Lisa is a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt. Lisa has a BSN from the University of Cincinnati and a MSN and MEd from Xavier University.
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Master the basics of finance in the ambulatory surgery setting during this introductory session. Discuss the fundamentals of accounting and finance, review income statements and balance sheets and learn how to navigate basic financial decision making.
AEU Content Area: Financial
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John Goehle is the Chief Operating Officer and partner with Ambulatory Healthcare Strategies, LLC - a Rochester, New York-based ASC management and consulting services company.
Prior to forming AHS, Mr. Goehle developed and managed two Rochester New York-based ambulatory surgery centers, and provided management consulting services for a wide range of health care organizations, primarily in the Northeast.
Mr. Goehle has a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh Scotland, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from Ithaca College in Upstate New York. He holds the prestigious Certified Administrator Surgery Center (CASC) credential. He is also a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York. Mr. Goehle is also an accreditation surveyor with the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Healthcare (AAAHC).
Mr. Goehle is the host of the ASC Podcast with John Goehle available on iTunes and Google Play. He is also is frequent speaker on health care finance, technology and administration and has authored or co-authored eight books related to the ASC Industry including Ambulatory Surgery Center Governance - A Guide for Ambulatory Surgery Center Owners & Governing Body Members and The Survey Guide for ASCs – A Guide to the CMS Conditions of Coverage & Interpretive Guidelines for Ambulatory Surgery Centers. He is a former board member with the Federated Ambulatory Surgery Association and one of the founders of the New York State Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers.
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Whether your ASC is just beginning to introduce spine procedures or already has a high-performing spine program, this session is for you. Find out what an administrator with 14 years of experience running outpatient spine facilities wishes she had known from the beginning. Listen in as she describes the successes and pitfalls of running a spine facility, offers insights into the processes she’s found to be most and least helpful and examines the limitations and future potential of spine procedures in the outpatient setting.
AEU Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care
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Karen Reiter is currently the CEO of DISC Surgery Center at Newport Beach, she has spent over fourteen years running multi specialty Ambulatory Surgery Centers each of which have been a driving force for cutting edge management of complex outpatient spine surgeries.
Karen has overseen the growth of her current facility from a concept to a company that now has annual revenue of over $50 million, almost exclusively in Spinal Surgery.
Karen is a member of AORN’s Ambulatory Surgery Specialty Assembly Coordinating Council.
She has authored for AORN on patient education for outpatient spinal surgery, and has written several articles for Outpatient Surgery magazine as well she has presented many times at Becker’s, AORN Congress, ASCA, CASA and OR Excellence Conferences.
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12:15 pm–1:15 pm |
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Review the Medicare ASC reimbursement and payment logic and discuss the impact this has on commercial payer contract structure and negotiations. Explore the implications that these rules have on surgery migration trends and consider how this affects ways to approach commercial payers in ASC contracting.
AEU Content Area: Regulatory and Legal Issues
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Naya Kehayes is a Principal and Ambulatory Surgery Practice Leader at ECG Management Consultants. Prior to ECG, she was the Founder and CEO of Eveia Health Consulting. She has spent more than 25 years in the healthcare industry and 20 years in consulting. She has devoted her career to working with ASCs, surgical hospitals and surgeons, and has a proven track record as a strategic adviser to clients in ASC operations, managed care contracting, reimbursement, and financial analysis. Naya is a member of the ASCA Government Affairs Committee. She is a board member, the Payment Policy Chair and past President of the Washington Ambulatory Surgery Center Association. She has numerous publications, is a national speaker and a lecturer at Yale University School of Public Health. Naya earned a B.A. from the University of Rochester and a Masters of Public Health from Yale University.
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Explore advanced topics in ASC finance, including benchmarking, financial projections, break-even analysis and ratio analysis. Get answers to your more challenging financial questions and discuss ways to handle difficult financial situations.
AEU Content Area: Financial
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John Goehle is the Chief Operating Officer and partner with Ambulatory Healthcare Strategies, LLC - a Rochester, New York-based ASC management and consulting services company.
Prior to forming AHS, Mr. Goehle developed and managed two Rochester New York-based ambulatory surgery centers, and provided management consulting services for a wide range of health care organizations, primarily in the Northeast.
Mr. Goehle has a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh Scotland, and a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from Ithaca College in Upstate New York. He holds the prestigious Certified Administrator Surgery Center (CASC) credential. He is also a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York. Mr. Goehle is also an accreditation surveyor with the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Healthcare (AAAHC).
Mr. Goehle is the host of the ASC Podcast with John Goehle available on iTunes and Google Play. He is also is frequent speaker on health care finance, technology and administration and has authored or co-authored eight books related to the ASC Industry including Ambulatory Surgery Center Governance - A Guide for Ambulatory Surgery Center Owners & Governing Body Members and The Survey Guide for ASCs – A Guide to the CMS Conditions of Coverage & Interpretive Guidelines for Ambulatory Surgery Centers. He is a former board member with the Federated Ambulatory Surgery Association and one of the founders of the New York State Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers.
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CMS requires that ASCs have “a licensed healthcare professional qualified through training in infection control and designated to direct the ASC’s infection control program.” Traditionally, the infection prevention designee fulfills more than one role in the facility and so often struggles to define their responsibilities when directed to manage the program. Identify the key components of an ASC infection prevention program that are the responsibility of the infection preventionist. Explore how the role of infection preventionist integrates with a multidisciplinary approach towards a QAPI program.
AEU Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care
IPCH Content Area: Infection Prevention Program Development, Implementation & Maintenance
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Debbie currently provides healthcare consulting services to ASC’s focusing on developing and maintaining comprehensive Infection Control and Quality programs. She assists facilities with survey readiness for CMS and accreditation agencies. Prior to consulting, she was a VP of Operations for a management company overseeing the operations and development of ASC's and surgical hospitals. She has worked in the ASC industry in California since 1993, beginning as an Administrator of a surgery center. Debbie served on the Board of the California Ambulatory Surgery Association for 15 years; including Past President. She continues to date to serve as Chair of the Education Committee, including developing the CASA Infection Control Seminar for over 11 years.
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If an adverse event occurred today, would you know how to properly conduct an investigation, facilitate open communications and develop an action plan? The time to make sure you’re prepared to respond to an adverse event isn’t after it’s already occurred—it’s now. Learn how to investigate an event and formulate a root cause analysis; communicate with staff, physicians, your insurance carrier and the patient and their family; and prepare for investigations by state authorities and potential legal proceedings.
AEU Content Area: Quality Management
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Sandra Jones is President of Ambulatory Strategies, providing management, development, regulatory compliance, accreditation preparation, ASC licensing and CMS certification compliance consulting, and risk management services to surgical centers. Sandra is a Certified Professional in Healthcare Risk Management, Certified Administrator Surgery Center, Certified in Health Care Quality Management, and Fellow of the Health Care Financial Management Association. She is a contributor on the subject of risk management, regulatory compliance and operational issues for several professional publications. Sandra is an AAAHC accreditation surveyor, serves on the Standards Development Committee for the AAAHC and is a former board member of AAAHC. For nine years, she served on the board of the ASC Association where she served on Governance, Strategic Planning, HIPAA Compliance and other committees. She recently was on the board of the Florida Society for Healthcare Risk Management and Patient Safety and serves on the Advocacy Committee.
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1:15 pm–1:45 pm |
Break/Lunch
Take a quick break to grab lunch returning before educational sessions.
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1:45 pm–3:00 pm |
To protect patients, physicians, nurses and other medical personnel, everyone involved with medical lasers needs to understand how to safely manage each type of device. Get to know what safety standards and policies you need to have in place to minimize the health hazards associated with the use of surgical laser systems in specific situations. Laser safety protocols from the ANSI 136.3 “Safe Use of Lasers in the Healthcare Facilities Standards” and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses’ Recommended Practices 2020 will be addressed.
AEU Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care
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Vangie Dennis is the AVP of AnMed Health in the Anderson, South Carolina. She is on the editorial board for the Journal: Clinical Laser Medicine and Surgery, OR Today and Outpatient Surgery.
Vangie serves on the Board of Directors for Laser Institute of America, chair for the National Certification on Lasers, Board of Laser Safety Commissions, representative for the ANSI and presently the National Treasurer for AORN Board of Directors.
She is the recipient of the 1996 Nursing Excellence Award from the American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery, 2011 R. James Rockwell Jr. Educational Achievement Award, 2011 AORN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Nursing Education, 2018 Distinguished Nurse of the Year for the Georgia March of Dimes and 2019 OR Manager of the year, and the perioperative nurse of the year for the Georgia Council of Nurses. Vangie is currently running for President -Elect for National AORN.
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The ASC industry continues to be at the forefront of healthcare transactions and investments. Review current transaction trends, focusing on for-profit, nonprofit, management company and private equity investment. Discuss the fundamentals of fair market value (FMV) and learn what FMV actually means, why it’s required in an ASC transaction and what the compliance benefits of an FMV appraisal entail. Examine the valuation techniques for an ASC and identify relative risks that drive value for all stakeholders. Consider market observations that are shaping the ASC transaction space and gain practical tips to maximize the value of your ASC.
AEU Content Area: Financial
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Clinton Flume is a Managing Director at VMG Health in the Dallas office. Over his 12 year tenure, his focus has been on developing client relationships and providing valuation, transaction advisory, and operational consulting services in the healthcare services industry. He has significant experience with the ambulatory surgery centers. Having conducted over 350 ASC valuations, Mr. Flume has provided FMV opinions and ASC development consulting services to for-profit and not-for-profit health systems, ASC management companies and private equity.
Colin Park is a Director at VMG Health and is based in the Dallas office. His focus has been on developing client relationships and providing valuation, transaction advisory, and operational consulting services in the healthcare services industry. Specifically, he has significant experience with ambulatory surgery centers, acute care and specialty hospitals, oncology centers, diagnostic imaging centers, dialysis centers, physicians groups, and numerous other ancillary healthcare service business segments. In addition to the extensive valuation experience for transaction planning and financial reporting purposes, he has consulted on numerous development, feasibility, and denovo business development engagements. Clients include for-profit and not-for-profit health systems, ancillary services providers, development companies across several healthcare industry sub-specialties, and other publicly owned and privately held healthcare entities.
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Every human being is unique. Finding the groove for a positive culture in a workplace full of individuals with distinct needs, dispositions and personalities is a challenge. However, it's not impossible. All it takes is intention, planning, communication, focus and, of course, some fun. Discover ways you can set expectations, gain respect, build trust and ultimately create a positive culture for your team.
AEU Content Area: Human Resources
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I have worked as a teacher, supervisor, professor, instructional designer, change leader, mentor, and facilitator. I have a bachelor's in Sociology and a Master's in Anthropology and in Information Science. For over 20 years I have helped teams develop and grow. I have certifications in DiSC, Change Style, Teamwork, and Facilitation. I have worked with non-profits, NGO's, government, higher education, and corporate groups to grow individuals, create team, and impact customer experience.
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Go well beyond spreadsheets in this session, designed for ASC administrators, on operational finance. Take a deep dive into budget creation and management, financial projections, productivity improvement, supply spend analysis and balance sheet reviews. Gain valuable tools and insights you can use to improve your ASC’s financial performance.
AEU Content Area: Financial
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Terry is Vice President of Ambulatory Surgery Centers for Community Health Systems in Franklin, Tennessee. The CHS portfolio includes over 100 hospitals and 25 ASCs throughout the United States. 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 managed surgery centers and surgical hospitals in 15 different states.
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 faculty for the University of Florida as adjunct assistant professor in their Masters in Healthcare Administration program. He retired as Commander in the United States Navy Reserve after 24 years of military service.
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3:15 pm–4:15 pm |
Join this discussion of current updates and best practices in sterile processing to focus on decontamination, the various methods of sterilization, the advantages and disadvantages of each, safe storage and return to the sterile field. Make sure your ASC has the quality control measures it needs in place to ensure all your instruments are being processed safely and effectively.
AEU Content Area: Delivery of Patient Care
IPCH Content Area: Instrument/Equipment Cleaning, Disinfection and Sterilization
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Lori Pacheco is a Certified Registered Nurse in Ophthalmology (CRNO) with 27 years of ophthalmic experience. Lori’s background primarily lies in the ambulatory care setting. She has extensive experience in the intraoperative environment as a scrub nurse and circulator.
In addition to her work as an intraoperative staff nurse, Lori worked as the Director of Clinical Services for one of the largest physician owned ophthalmic practices in the United States and as the Clinical Director for their multispecialty ophthalmic surgery center in Cape Cod.
Lori has served in various volunteer capacities in nursing and outreach projects in developing countries around the globe. Lori currently works for ORBIS International as the Sr. Manager of Volunteer Faculty Relations.
Lori has written publications and lectured on the industry standards and guidelines in central sterile processing and most recently on the care and handling of hazardous drugs and USP 800.
Lori is on the Board for the American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses and dedicated to being a resource for ophthalmic nurses on a national and international platform.
Opening an ASC to better serve the needs of your surgeons and patients can be an extremely rewarding experience, but designing the facility and becoming fully operational can be challenging and full of unforeseen, and sometimes costly, concerns. From choosing the right architect and engineer to navigating complex regulatory requirements and timelines, find out how to clear some of the most common hurdles and benefit from the lessons learned by others who have successfully completed the process.
AEU Content Area: Human Resources
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In 2004, I graduated with my BSN in nursing and began my nursing career in a hospital setting. In 2007, I received a job opportunity with Roanoke Valley Center for Sight LLC (RVCS), an ophthalmic ambulatory surgery center located within my community. I served as a floor nurse for the next 9 years working with multiple ophthalmic surgeons and their patients in the high volume, two operating room facility. In 2016, I was offered the Clinical Director position at RVCS. At the time, construction had just begun on a second ophthalmic ASC and I took over responsibility for this project from the previous director. The second ASC opened for patient care in January 2018, right as it was decided that construction of a third ASC would begin that same year. Our third facility opened in August 2019 and a fourth surgery center is planned to open in 2021.
Explore what is holding up your ASC claim payments in 2021 and approaches you can take to ensure you are paid correctly, every time. Look at best practices for A/R workflow and denial management and discuss strategic ways to hold the payer accountable to its obligations. Ways to empower your team to achieve best results, whether your ASC is in in-network or out, will be discussed.
AEU Content Area: Financial
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As a nationally recognized ASC revenue cycle leader, Rebecca has successfully managed all areas of revenue cycle management for more than 15 years. Rebecca began in ASC leadership as Business Director for two high volume, multi-specialty surgery centers in south Florida.
Rebecca joined SurgCenter Development in 2008 as Director of A/R & Materials where she worked to help develop over 15 ASCs with a focus on deploying successful revenue cycle and business office processes. Rebecca then went on to become VP, Revenue Cycle & Managed Care Contracting for a surgery center/surgical hospital management company directing a CBO for its 18+ Clients.
Currently Rebecca serves as President of NSN Revenue Resources, where she has built an unmatched team with diversified experience. NSN currently has 111 ASC clients, 160+ team members and prides itself on serving its clients through excellence in customer service, reimbursement strategy, company culture and team development.
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The ASC has historically been an attractive work environment for physicians, nurses and other members of the healthcare team searching for that perfect place to serve patients while also enjoying a healthy work-life balance. However, an evolving set of regulations, paperwork and work pace has threatened that equilibrium, creating a challenge for ASC leaders. Research says that the higher the professional satisfaction, the better the quality of patient care provided. Employer-employee relationships, engagement and autonomy are linked to professional satisfaction. Explore strategies that ASC leaders can use to increase engagement and satisfaction of employees and physicians, and ultimately improve the overall patient experience as well as the quality of care delivered at their center.
AEU Content Area: Quality Management
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Michelle George is Senior Director of Clinical Services with Surgical Care Affiliates. Michelle has over 35 years of experience as a registered nurse. She has worked in various areas of nursing including critical care, emergency and trauma, and surgical services. Michelle has served in multiple hospital and ambulatory surgical center leadership roles, served on professional advisory boards, as affiliate faculty to a nursing program and professional speaker to professional and state healthcare organizations. She has authored various nursing journal articles and been contributing author to a healthcare textbook. Michelle completed a Master’s in Nursing Administration program at San Diego State University and holds a Certified Administrator Surgery Center certification. She serves on the ASCA Education Committee, is the immediate past-president for ASC Quality Collaboration Board of Directors and is the current President for California Ambulatory Surgery Association.
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