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Sunday, March 21, 2010 — 7:30 PM, Maryland
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- Practice Threats: Issues that Affect Your Bottom Line
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Moderator:
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Dennis O'Malley, Clarient Diagnostics, Aliso Viejo, CA
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Disclosure:
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In accordance with ACCME guidelines regarding disclosure, the USCAP policy requires that faculty members who have a significant financial or other relationship with a commercial company, entity, or service (which will be discussed in this Symposium) must disclose this to attendees. The Academy also requires that speakers disclose any products that are not labeled for the use under discussion. Robert Petras and his wife are employees of Ameripath Inc/Quest Diagnostics. The other speakers listed below have indicated they have nothing to disclose.
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| 7:30 | Introduction - Dennis O'Malley, Clarient Diagnostics, Aliso Viejo, CA |
| 7:45 | Legal Updates and Recent Developments Affecting Pathology - Jane Pine Wood, McDonald Hopkins LLC, Dennis, MA |
| 8:15 | Legislative Initiatives to Address the "In Office Ancillary Services Exception" Under the Stark Law - Jeff Jacobs, ASCP Vice President, Washington, DC |
| 9:00 | A Pathology Perspective on Practice Threats - W. Stephen Black-Schaffer, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA |
| 9:30 | Panel Discussion |
Join this timely, critical discussion of issues that affect business practices in surgical pathology. You'll gain valuable insights about changes in business and regulation that will affect your bottom line.
Following this program, you will be able to:
1) Apply effective compliance and billing practices in surgical pathology.
2) Recognize important factors in remaining legally compliant.
Employ competitive business strategies.
3) Recommend business practices to pathology organizations to help combat this threat.
The members of the ASCP Annual Meeting Committee identified the need for pathologists to be cognizant of the controversies and compliance issues affecting pathology today. These controversial "gray areas of compliance" of irregular business practices are beginning to erode the profession and practice of surgical pathology. As such, the ASCP Companion Society course was developed to increase awareness, to help recognize and to combat unprofessional business practices.
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