This week on the ASC Podcast with John Goehle we discuss the latest news for the industry and talk about the requirements of Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act which requires ASCs to provide patients with limited English proficiency with access to translation services and includes posting requirements.  In our focus segment this week, we look closely at the registration function and the requirements for registering a patient.  Our question of the week is about transporting sterile instruments after the procedure.

This week on the ASC Podcast with John Goehle we welcome Jenna Alvarez, RN as a co-host.  John and Jenna discuss the latest news from the Joint Commission, news from the American Society of Diagnostic Interventional Nephrology conference in Salt Lake City and opportunities for ASCs to add vascular access services.  Our focus section this week will be about the role of the administrator in the ASC and our question of the week is about what to do while you are waiting for your deemed status survey.

This week the ASC Podcast with John Goehle makes it national debut.  John and Judie talk about this weeks latest news, fire drills and fire training and tackles a listener question about the new Medicare Quality Reporting requirements. 

This weeks episode focuses on infection control.

This week John discusses the subject of Credentialing in an ASC.

This week John and Judie talk about Quality Improvement and infection control and QAPI meetings. 

This week John Goehle  and Judie D'Ambrosio talk about the ASCA 2018 Winter Seminars, HIPAA and Hospital Discharge Summaries

This week John Goehle talks about the new podcasts and discusses timeouts and ACLS and PALS requirements

This week we discuss the latest news about door testing, the ASCA 2018 Winter Seminars, Governing Body agendas and minutes and External Benchmarking.