ASCA NEWS
Attend This Month’s Webinar ASCA will host one webinar this month: “How to Train your Business Office Team to Optimize your Revenue Cycle,” on June 14 at 1:00 p.m. ET. Lisa Rock, president of National Medical Billing Services in St. Louis, Missouri, will discuss important aspects of the revenue cycle, how the 10th revision of the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD-10) impacts processes, key performance indicators you can use to benchmark performance and technologies that increase efficiency. She will provide checklists and tips to help keep office staff trained and all aspects of the revenue cycle maximized. Register online at
www.ascassocia
tion.org/Webinars. All webinars will be recorded and available for purchase on ASCA’s
Learning Center,
www.asca.
sclivelearningcenter.com. Nursing con- tact hours and AEU credits will be avail- able, and multiple members of your staff can participate using the same online connection. Participate in the live broad- cast to ask questions real-time.
Get a Competitive Advantage with Upgraded Benchmarking ASCA recently upgraded its clinical and operational benchmarking pro- gram—ASCA Benchmarking— based on feedback from ASCA members and benchmarking experts in the ASC community.
ASCA Benchmarking provides a comprehensive tool targeted to those areas of ASC management that ASC professionals say concern them most. The upgraded program has popular features from the previous system and exciting new ones that subscribers have requested. Now, in addition to being easy to use and accessible 24/7, ASCA Benchmarking features dynamic filter- ing capabilities, streamlined data entry and real-time results.
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orient new staff, achieve top outcomes, assess competency and improve qual- ity of care. The Training Series includes 21 courses, 16 of which offer CE credits, covering medication safety, safe patient handling, postoperative pain control, infection prevention and Health Insur- ance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) compliance and more. For more information, visit www.
ascassociation.org/TrainingSeries.
ASCA Benchmarking remains a 100 percent online survey and reporting tool and is offered to members at a deep discount. For more information, visit
www.ascassociation. org/Benchmarking.
Earn CE Credit with Online Training Series ASCA’s online Regulatory Training Series offers an opportunity to earn continuing education (CE) credit year- round without having to travel. The interactive online courses, offered through ASCA in association with HealthStream, target the unique needs of ASC professionals and can help centers meet regulatory requirements,
Names in the News
Do you have a new hire? Did your company win an award? Or did your management change? You can highlight all your company announcements in the Names in the News section of ASC Focus’ web site. This resource is available for free to both ASCA members and nonmembers.
ASCA members will need to be logged in and nonmembers will need to create a “Nonmember Guest Account” to access this free resource.
Please send your announcement to
editorial@ascassociation.org.
Still Time to Sign Up for June Capitol Fly-In The first of ASCA’s two 2016 Capi- tol Fly-In sessions will take place June 13–14 in Washington, DC. ASCA’s Capitol Fly-In program is your oppor- tunity to join other ASC advocates from around the country and lobby your members of Congress to support important ASC legislation. Over two days, you will learn about the issues affecting ASCs and the legislative process and meet with your legislators and their staff on Capitol Hill.
More than 100 members of Con-
gress cosponsored important ASC leg- islation in response to these Fly-Ins conducted since 2014. Register online for the June or September Fly-In, September 12–13, at
www.ascassociation.org/2016capitolflyin.
Download Sessions from ASCA 2016 Were you unable to attend ASCA 2016 in Dallas, May 19–22, or did you miss any sessions that you would have liked to attend while you were there? Ses- sion recordings available through the ASCA Learning Center can help you catch up on what you missed. Make sure that your ASC is posi- tioned for optimal success. Visit the ASCA Learning Center at
asca.sclive
learningcenter.com
and recordings that you need. order the
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