REGULATORY REVIEW


Guidelines Revision Process The HGRC builds the content of the Guidelines. Members are responsible for contributing during the proposal and comment periods to the work of the document group (hospital, out- patient or residential) to which they have been assigned. Upon agreement on respective recommendations, docu- ment groups are tasked with advising the publication of the final manuscript to the HGRC Steering Committee. Although the Guidelines revision process is spearheaded and ultimately approved by the HGRC, there is ample opportunity for public comment. In fact, we are currently in the first public comment period that will last until October 15, 2015. The 2018 Guidelines revision cycle will yield three Guidelines documents—one for hospitals, one for outpatient facilities and one for residential health care and support facilities. To contribute to the development process for the outpatient facilities document, please visit the electronic proposal system that has been created for that book, available at: www.fgiguidelines.net/proposals_OP.


ASCA’s Representation Keith Metz, MD, and Jennifer But- terfield, CASC, will represent ASCA on the FGI’s Health Guidelines Revi- sion Committee (HGRC) for the 2018 revision cycle.


Metz is both a physician and an


attorney. For the past 10+ years he has been in active clinical practice as an anesthesiologist and medical direc- tor


at Great Lakes Surgery Center, LLC, in Southfield, Michigan, a busy physician-owned five operating room (OR) multi-specialty ASC. He was a member of the ASCA Board from 2006–2014 and chaired the ASCA Government Affairs Committee from 2012–2014. He has been assigned by the HGRC Steering Committee to the “Procedure and Surgery” Task Group.


ASCs have not previously benefited from direct representation on the HGRC, but for the 2018 revision cycle ASCs’ interests will be directly represented on the HGRC.”


— Kara Newbury, ASCA Butterfield is the administrator


of Lakes Surgery Center in West Bloomfield, Michigan, a multispecialty ASC. She has worked in the ASC industry for 10 years, serving as OR manager and chief nursing officer prior to becoming administrator. She serves on several committees, including the ASCA Education Committee, and is a board member of the Greater West Bloomfield Chamber of Commerce. She has been assigned to the position of


chair to the “Procedures” Task


Group housed within the Outpatient Document Group. In addition, she will take part in the “Procedure and Surgery” Task Group. Also giving voice to ASC concerns, Daniel Buehler, vice president of facil- ities management and construction for AmSurg Corp will serve his second term on the HGRC.


Kara Newbury is ASCA’s regulatory counsel. Write her at knewbury@ascassociation.org. Katerina Chilikov is an intern at ASCA.


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