Catalog Number : ngd1693
Title : CMS Revised Hospital Anesthesia Services Interpretive Guidelines
Speaker : Sue Dill

Webplay Recording Date : 5-13-2010
Webplay Price : $ 200 for two weeks viewing

Webinar Purpose:

The Center for Medicaid and Medicaid Services (CMS) made significant changes to the anesthesia interpretive guidelines on December 11, 2009. Every hospital that accepts Medicare and Medicaid must follow these new standards and they must be followed for all patients. CMS provides further detail on preanesthetic assessment, post-anesthesia evaluation and intra-anesthesia requirements. These also impact issues related to CRNAs and the provision of analgesia during labor and delivery. The regulations discuss who can administer anesthesia and supervision requirements. The guidance also covers what types of anesthesia services are subject to the requirements governing the administration of anesthesia. Hospitals will need to rewrite their policies and procedures and credentialing and privileging policies to reflect these new requirements.

Target Audience: 

• Chief of Anesthesia
• Anesthesiologist
• CRNAs
• Anesthesia Assistants
• Director of the OR and OR nurses
• PACU Nurse Manager
• Medical Credentialing Staff
• Patient Safety Officer
• Risk Manager
• Chief Nursing Officer
• OB Nurses and Nurse Director
• Quality Improvement Director
• Regulation and Accreditation Director
• ED Directors
• Nurse Educator
• PI Director
• Compliance Director
• GI Department Directors
• Anyone who is involved in assisting with cases of anesthesia and moderate sedation

Webinar Objectives:

• Recall what policies and procedures are now required by CMS related to anesthesia services
• Describe what must be documented on the intra-operative record
• Discuss the requirements for the post-anesthesia evaluation of both inpatients and outpatients
• Recall the scope of practice for a CRNAs regarding epidurals and spinals for labor and delivery patients
• Discuss that deep sedation must be delivered or supervised by an anesthesiologist or CRNA

A Few of the Topics that will be covered:

• Must comply if hospital does any type of anesthesia
• Director of Anesthesia Services
• Anesthesia verses analgesia
• Anesthesia services subject to requirements
• General, regional, MAC, topical, minimal sedation, moderate sedation
• Rescue capacity
• OR, Radiology, OC, ED, Clinics, Psychiatry and other sites where anesthesia is provided
• QAPI
• Director of Anesthesia responsibilities
• Who can administer anesthesia
• Scope of practice for CRNA and Anesthesia Assistants
• CRNA state exemption
• Anesthesia Policies required
• Criteria for privileges
• Board of Directors responsibilities
• Preanesthesia assessment
• Post-anesthesia evaluations
• Consent, infection control, documentation, safety policies required
• Documentation requirements
• Intraoperative anesthesia record requirements

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