Catalog Number : nad1656
Title : CMS ASC Curriculum: Surgical Services & Anesthesia
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 1-28-2010
Webplay Price : $ 160 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Purpose:

In May 2009, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) published extensive updates to the Interpretive Guidelines that reflect the new and revised Conditions for Coverage (CfCs) for Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs). ASCs must comply with the revised CMS Conditions for Coverage in order to receive Medicare reimbursement. These revisions represent the most significant changes in the ASC CfCs since they were originally published on August 5, 1982!

Let CMS expert Sue Dill Calloway help you navigate through the 149 pages of interpretive guidelines on the new ASC regulations!

Target Audience: 

• Board members
• CEO
• Chief Nursing Officers
• OR Nurses
• Nurse Managers
• PACU Nurses and nurse managers
• Physicians
• Directors of Anesthesia
• Directors of Radiology
• Directors of Lab
• ASC legal counsel
• Risk Managers
• Compliance Officers
• Infection Control Preventionists
• PI Directors
• Admission and Registration Staff
• Environment of Care Directors
• Patient Safety Officers

Webinar Objectives:

• Identify changes to the CMS Ambulatory Surgery Center Conditions for Coverage that affect your facility
• Revise policies and procedures to meet the CMS Conditions for Coverage for Ambulatory Surgery Centers
• Describe updates to the patient rights chapter of the ASC Conditions for Coverage including the advance directive requirements
• Improve your facility's infection control program to meet the CMS requirement under the infection control chapter of the Conditions for Coverage for ASCs

A Few of the Topics that will be covered:

• General provisions and definitions
• Survey of ASCs
• Governing body and management
• Disaster preparedness plan
• Surgical services
• Anesthetic risk and evaluation
• CRNA state exemptions
• Discharge with responsible adult
• Quality assessment and PI
• Scope of PI program
• Physical Environment
• Safety from fire
• Hand hygiene
• Emergency equipment required in OR
• Training in emergency equipment
• Medical Staff
• Nursing Services
• Medical Records
• Content of medical records
• Pharmaceutical services
• Orders for drugs and biologicals
• Blood and blood products
• Lab and radiology services
• Patient rights
• Notice of rights
• Financial ownership disclosure
• Advance directives
• Grievances
• Informed consent
• Privacy and safety
• Infection control
• Patient admission, assessment, and discharge

Contact Hours:

This course has been approved for 1.2 Iowa Nursing Contact Hours. There is usually a reciprocal agreement between state associations to allow these to count for each state. If you have any questions, please ask your state association.

Full tuition is refunded immediately on request if the participant has not been sent the program materials and instructions. Once the instructions (including access codes) have been sent, a full refund will be issued only after the program runs and it is verified that the participant did not access the program.