Catalog Number : nad1668
Title : CMS ASC Curriculum: Patient Admission, Assessment & Discharge Services
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 11-4-2010
Webplay Price : $ 160 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Overview:

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 amended these on December 30, 2009. There are 12 sections to the new regulations including one on patient admission, assessment, discharge, pre-surgical and post-surgical assessment. This was a new section. This program will cover every tag number in this section.

Target Audience

• Anyone who is involved in patient admissions, assessment, and discharge should attend this program
• Also anyone who is responsible for the pre-surgical or post-surgical assessment should attend
• This includes:
  • all pre-admission testing nurses and staff
  • Physicians
  • PACU Nurses
  • Discharge Planners
  • Social Workers
  • Department Directors
  • Performance Improvement Coordinator
  • Accreditation Staff
  • Chief Nursing Officer
  • OR Director and Staff
  • Nurse Educator
  • Nursing Management
  • Physicians
  • Nurses
  • Administrator
  • Risk Managers
  • Legal Department
  • Compliance Officers
  • Board Members
  • Patient Safety Officers

Webinar Objectives:

• Recall the CMS changes to the ASC Conditions for Coverage that affect the patient admission and discharge process
• Describe how to locate a copy of the ASC Conditions for Coverage
• Discuss that requirements for the history and physical Recall that the CMS has interpretive guidelines on the pre-surgical and post-surgical assessment

Webinar Agenda/Outline:

• Introduction to ASC CfC
• How to obtain a copy
• How to keep apprised of changes
• CMS ASC website
• Patient admission process
• Pre-surgical assessment required
• Post-surgical assessment requirements
• Proper patient selection
• Patient Safety Authority tool kit for patient selection
• Effective discharge planning requirement
• H&P done within 30 days
• H&P updated
• Who can do the H&P
• H&P in the chart prior to surgery
• Admission requirements
• Documentation in the medical record requirements
• Post surgical assessment

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.