In the past year, Congress has been holding hearings and discussing various proposals purported to decrease the cost of health care; guarantee safe, high-quality care for patients and ensure patient access to care.
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Advocacy Helps Medicare Patients Access More Procedures
ASCA is ringing in the New Year with optimism that changes in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) final 2024 ASC and hospital outpatient department (HOPD) payment rule will lead to increased Medicare beneficiary access to surgery centers.
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OAS CAHPS Is Coming; Make Sure Your Surgery Center Is Ready
Getting the more than 6,200 Medicare-certified ASCs operating in the U.S. up and running with this survey will take some time. Your facility will not want to be the last in line to ask for the help it will need. Also, many facilities already conducting the survey have told us that they were disappointed by their initial results and changed some of their training to respond to areas that the survey indicated needed improvement.
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ASCA Advocates for Protecting and Expanding Patient Access to ASCs
In early February, working with Congressmen Brad Wenstrup, DPM (R-OH) and John Larson (D-CT) and Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Bill Cassidy, MD (R-LA), we supported the introduction of the Outpatient Surgery Quality and Access Act of 2023 (H.R. 972/S. 312).
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Make Succession Planning Easier, Invest in Your Staff
Fresh insights into ways that surgery centers can prepare for the inevitable leadership transitions they will experience, whether those involve key clinical staff or the ASC’s physician partners.
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ASCA Moves Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative Forward
Creating a more diversified, equitable and inclusive health care system is not something that will happen overnight, nor is it something ASCA can achieve on its own. Systemic change will take time and commitment and resources from the government and the entire health care system.
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