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Three Studies Demonstrate Value ASCs Deliver to Public, Private Insurers
by OR Today Magazine | Nov 30, 2020
Three important studies released recently contain findings that everyone interested in improving patient access to lower cost, high-quality outpatient surgical care should know.
READ MOREIt’s Safe to Resume Non-Emergency Outpatient Surgery
by OR Today Magazine | Sep 30, 2020
By Bill Prentice By the time you read this message, coronavirus-related guidance of many kinds will have been in place in communities across the country for more than half the year. For patients who could not get routine or non-emergency health care under some of that...
READ MOREReopening to the New Normal
by OR Today Magazine | Jul 31, 2020
By Bill Prentice From early March through the end of April, it seemed that almost everyone I talked to used the word “coronavirus” or “COVID-19” at some point in our conversation. ASCA staff worked seven days a week during that time, conferring with federal and state...
READ MOREASCA Supports ASC Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
by OR Today Magazine | May 31, 2020
By Bill Prentice As I write this message, COVID-19 cases in the U.S. are continuing to rise and health care providers, federal and state officials and private citizens across the country are beginning to come to grips with the magnitude of the response needed to...
READ MOREASCs Raise the Bar on Quality of the Patient Experience
by OR Today Magazine | Apr 1, 2020
By Bill Prentice As part of our ongoing commitment to putting patients first, ASCA and ASCs across the country are involved in a wide range of projects aimed at improving the patient experience in ASCs. One hot-button topic we have turned new attention to recently is...
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