Transplant News Preparing for CMS Audits AudioConference 12/4/08

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December 4 Webinar/Audioconference to Discuss Preparing for CMS AuditsNovember 11th, 2008

Transplant administrators, transplant surgeons, hospital administrators, and insurance company executives won’t want to miss the next Transplant Communications Webinar/Audioconference on “The CMS Interpretive Guidelines for transplant centers COPs: What centers waiting to be audited need to know; why centers that have already been audited must remain vigilant.”

The program, to be held from 3-4:30 p.m. Eastern time on Thursday, Dec. 4, will provide in-depth information on how to prepare for CMS audits, based on the experience of those who have gone through the process and by those now faced with correcting deficiencies the found by surveyors.

The speakers include: an attorney for Powers, Pyles, Sutter and Verville, legal and regulatory experts, counsel for the American Society of Transplant Surgeons; Mike Abecassis, MD, MBA, chief of the Division of Transplantation and professor of surgery at Northwestern University, Chicago, and treasurer, American Society of Transplant Surgeons; and Milton, BSN, CCTC, MBA, administrative director/associate faculty, University of Texas Health Center, San .

NATCO, the organization for transplant professionals, will award 2.0 continuing education credits for nurses and transplant coordinators. Participation in the audioconference is $292 per site for access to one telephone line for an unlimited number of listeners; additional sites may be added for $146 each.

For more information, visit the Transplant Communications web site at www.trannews.com, or call Jim Warren at 1-.