CLIA-to-ASPEN July 2007 Training Agenda

CLIA-to-ASPEN TrainingJuly 2007Longmont, Colorado

Agenda

Day 1: Morning

  Welcome and Introductions

  Overview of the ASPEN Suite

I.  CLIA to ASPEN – the Phased Approach

  How CLIA phases will work

  ASPEN 9.0

II.  ASPEN How-to

  ASPEN Central Office

  Survey process – key differences in ASPEN

Day 1: Afternoon

III.  Unpaid Recertification (high-level)

  Certificate Inquiry options in ASPEN

  Creating a certification kit

  Creating a survey shell

  Edits

  Uploading a certification kit – effect of payment status

IV.  Scenario 1 – Unflagged Paid Recertification

  Create a certification kit

  Create a survey shell as part of the cert kit

  Citation Manager

  Complete CMS-1539

  Complete CMS-1557, note Hover Help

  Complete CMS-670 – required for upload

  Upload the cert kit

V.  About Specialties

  Survey Specialty Information screen

  1557 Specialties

VI.  About Uploads

  Meaning of arrow on Upload tab

  Overnight process

  Upload errors

  Sync Date errors

VII.  Scenario 2 – Unflagged, Unpaid Recertification

Day 2: Morning

VIII.  Scenario 3 – Flagged Recertification

  Flagging – RO/SA actions

  QC Exclusion tags, QC letter

IX.  Scenario 4 – Initial, Change in Certificate Type

  Types of certificates that generate an initial

  Two required fields at bottom of Cert & Survey tab

  Specialty data – effect of change in cert type

X.  Scenario 5 – Flagged Recertification or Scenario 6 - Initial Certifications

XI.  Special Processes

  Revisits

  Off-site surveys

  QC Exclusion: special cases

  Upload transaction tracking

Day 2: Afternoon

XII.  Scenario 7 – Validation Survey, SA-Initiated

  Survey type(s) and extent(s)

  Tracking tab

  Specialties

XIII.  Scenario 8 – Validation Survey, RO-Initiated

XIV.  ASE

  Import/Export

  Forms in ASE

  Direct Connect

  Merge

XV.  Scenario 9 – ASE (Merge)

XVI.  CLIA Reports in ASPEN 9.0

XVII.  Resources for Training at Home

  ASPEN documentation

  Materials from training on take-home CD

  Additional scenarios (10 and 11) on take-home CD

  WebEx recordings

  Training servers

  General ASPEN information

XVIII. Transition to ASPEN 9.0

  Prior surveys done in ASE

  Work and Pending records in ODIE

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