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Catalog Number : nad1660
Title : CMS ASC Curriculum: Medical Staff & Nursing Service Conditions of Coverage
Speaker : Sue Dill

Duration : 60 minutes

Webplay Recording Date : 5-5-2010
Webplay Price : $ 160 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Purpose:

CMS issued new Conditions for Coverage that every freestanding ambulatory surgery center (ASC) must meet if the ambulatory surgery center want paid for Medicare and Medicaid patients. The standards apply to all patients treated in the ASC including worker comp and patients with commercial insurance. These standards became effective on May 18, 2009 and contained 167 pages and 267 tag numbers. CMS has some minor amendments December 30, 2009.

There is a section on both medical staff and nursing staff. However, there are many other sections that affect nursing services and medical staff services.

Target Audience: 

  • Anyone who is involved in the ASC sections on medical staff and nursing services.
    • This includes:
      • all department directors
      • chief medical officer
      • chief nursing officer
      • administrator
      • nursing management
      • physicians
      • risk managers
      • legal department
      • compliance officers
      • Medical Staff Coordinator
      • patient safety officers
  • CMS also says the Board is responsible for all aspects of performance improvement

Webinar Objectives:

  • Recall the CMS changes to the ASC Conditions for Coverage that affect quality assessment and performance improvement · Describe how to locate a copy of the ASC Conditions for Coverage
  • Discuss that both nursing services and medical staff have a separate section in the ASC CfCs
  • Recall that an RN with specialized training or experience in emergency care must be available whenever there is a patient in the ASC
  • Discuss what is meant by being legally and professionally qualified regarding medical staff privileges

A Few of the Topics that will be covered:

  • Introduction to ASC CfC
  • How to obtain a copy
  • How to keep apprised of changes
  • CMS ASC website
  • Medical Staff accountability to Board
  • Organization of Medical Staff
  • MS Membership and Clinical Privileges
  • Legally Qualified and Professional Qualified
  • Competence for Privileges
  • Reappraisals
  • Review of personnel records
  • Other Practitioners
  • NP, CRNA, PA, and clinical activities
  • Oversight of other practitioners
  • Process and criteria for review of qualifications
  • Nursing services
  • Staffing to meet the needs of patients
  • CNO must be an RN
  • Organization and staffing of nursing services
  • Standards of practice
  • RN on duty with experience in emergency care
  • Other important sections

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.

Refund Policy:

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.