10th Annual Guidelines, Practice, and Advocacy Open House

Monday, April 14, 2008
3:00 p.m.–5:30 p.m.
Room Location: Lobby in front of the W-190 rooms

Open House Highlights

• Take home guideline clinician summaries, patient and caregiver summaries, and spring 2008 Guidelines on CD-ROM
• Talk with authors of guideline posters

AAN Practice Guidelines

View scientific poster presentations and talk to authors of recent clinical practice guidelines. Receive tools that make guidelines easy to reference, use, research, and share with patients. Posters may include:

• Evidence-report: The Medical Treatment of Ocular Myasthenia
• Practice Parameter: Treatment of Nervous System Lyme Disease
• Reassessment: Neuroimaging in the Emergency Room Patient Presenting with Seizure
• Practice Parameter: Evaluating an Apparent Unprovoked First Seizure in Adults
• Practice Parameter: Assessing Patients in a Neurology Practice for Risk of Falls

Medical Economics

Get tools, advice and resources you need to implement technology in your practice to help code correctly and increase reimbursement. Learn about the AAN's efforts in regulatory, coding and reimbursement advocacy.

• Pick-up a copy of the Stroke Coding Guide and the Academy's position statement on On-Call Reimbursement for Neurologists.
• Learn how to submit a payer grievance and understand how the new Payment Policy Subcommittee is facilitating neurologists' input into the policies of major payers.
• Discuss the principles of the Patient-Centered Medical Home and learn how payment structures may impact you.

Patient Safety

Discover how you can enhance patient safety and the care you provide.

• View the following posters:
• Can we Measure Patient Safety in the Neurology Practice
• Measuring Patient Safety in Residency Training
• Essential Patient Safety for Neurologists: A Payer Perspective

AAN Advocacy

Are you frustrated with the current health care realities? Are you interested in helping to effect change? Join the many Academy members before you by learning how you can get involved.

• Donald M. Palatucci Advocacy Leadership Forum
• Neurology on the Hill
• Kenneth M. Viste, Jr., MD, Neurology Public Policy Fellowship
• Vocus online software training
• AAN priority position education
• Medicare Sustainable Growth Rate
• Traumatic Brain Injury

Quality Initiatives

Pick up the new Quality Measurement and Eduation Resource Toolkit

Learn about measurement sets, reporting initiatives, quality improvement tools, and quality alliances. Specifically, discover how to integrate quality measures into your practice.

Lead your facility in appropriately identifying and assessing stroke risk prior to CAS or CEA. Learn how to participate in the CARE Registry™

Talk to members of the Quality Measurement and Reporting Subcommittee and ask about how to review and comment on draft quality indicator measurement sets; suggest a measurement set topic; share your practice improvement strategies and experiences in demonstrating to the public, payers, and your patients how you integrate quality into everyday practice.