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Thank you to everyone who came out and joined us last week in Orlando for the ASCA 2024 Conference & Expo! If you attended the conference, be sure to request your continuing education (CE) credits online via ASCA’s Education & Events Portal or through the ASCA Meetings app. The deadline to request CE credits is June 30.As a reminder, you must complete evaluations for the sessions you attended before you can request CE credits. |
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ASCA 2025: Save the Date!
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Save the date for the ASCA 2025 Conference & Expo, April 30–May 3, 2025, at the Gaylord Rockies Resort & Convention Center in Denver, Colorado.
ASCA’s annual conferences are known for the world-class ASC education and networking opportunities they provide. Check ASCA’s website this fall for more information about the 2025 conference!
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Submit your data for the first quarter (Q1) of ASCA’s 2024 Clinical & Operational Benchmarking Survey by next Tuesday, April 30, at 11:59 pm ET. This valuable online resource provides data you can use to improve clinical outcomes, staff indicators, billing performance and more at your facility. If you haven’t already, subscribe today so you can submit your data in April and receive a full year of national comparison data. There have been a few updates to the survey platform. Please be mindful of these changes as you submit your data. |
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Reveal the hidden areas of instruments with the TOSI® washer test
Reveal the hidden areas of instruments with the TOSI® washer test, the easy-to-use blood soil device that directly correlates to the cleaning challenge of surgical instruments. TOSI® is the first device to provide a consistent, repeatable, and reliable method for evaluating the cleaning effectiveness of the automated instrument washer.
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Be sure to check out the latest edition of ASCA’s “ ASC Physician Brief,” a quarterly one-pager to share with both the owner and nonowner physicians who work in your ASC. The Spring 2024 edition, which covers this year’s National Advocacy Day, how Medicare’s physician payment policies are in flux and more, is available on ASCA’s website. |
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Download This Free Policy and Save Yourself The Hassle
Potential HIPAA breaches are among the most common compliance risks — are you confident your organization’s employees know what to do?
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ASCA Board members elected Mark Wainner, senior director of ASC Acquisition and Development at Community Health Systems (CHS) in Franklin, Tennessee, as the new board president during the ASCA 2024 Conference & Expo in Orlando, Florida, April 17–20. Read this Names in the News article to learn more about Wainner and the other members elected to the ASCA Board, as well as the new officers. |
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Third-party research found ASCs are saving an average of $177,000 by implementing HST eChart. We used the research to build an EMR ROI calculator so you can input your center’s data to see the potential cost reductions when switching off paper. Try the calculator to discover your potential savings in seconds. Click here to try it now!
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Today, WHO launched a Patient Safety Rights Charter at the Global Ministerial Summit on Patient Safety. It is the first Charter to outline patients’ rights in the context of safety, and will support stakeholders in formulating the legislation, policies and guidelines needed to ensure patient safety.
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WHO News Release (04/18/24)
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In our statewide sample of screening and surveillance colonoscopies, we observed that propofol sedation when compared to moderate sedation without propofol was associated with a higher likelihood of serrated polyp detection. We did not observe significant differences in total polyp detection, or in the detection of adenomas.
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Anesthesiology (Spring 2024) Aurora N. Quaye; William M. Hisey; Todd A. Mackenzie; et al.
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In a substantive discussion of Medicare, the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission last week highlighted the multitude of challenges facing physician practices that result from Medicare’s problematic payment system. The American Medical Association appreciates its comments and urges Congress to continue this conversation on the need to reform Medicare, said Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, MPH, president, American Medical Association, in a statement.
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AMA News Release (04/15/24)
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On behalf of our member medical group practices, the Medical Group Management Association would like to thank the Committee for the opportunity to provide feedback on bolstering chronic care through Medicare physician payment. We appreciate your leadership in holding this important hearing as it is vital that Medicare adequately reimburse physicians for their chronic care services. Significant reforms are needed to the Medicare physician payment system to stop the harmful yearly cuts and support medical groups’ ability to offer high-quality care to patients with chronic conditions.
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MGMA.com (04/10/24)
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A new Wolters Kluwer Health survey¹ released today finds that 40% of U.S. physicians are ready to use generative AI (GenAI) this year when interacting with patients at the point-of-care. The findings reflect a rapid acceptance of the new technology more broadly, with 68% saying they have changed their views over the last year, and are now more likely to think that GenAI would be beneficial to healthcare.
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Wolters Kluwer (04/16/24)
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About ASCAMission: The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) is the national membership association that represents ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and provides advocacy and resources to assist ASCs in delivering high-quality, cost-effective ambulatory surgery to all the patients they serve. About Us: At ASCA, we are eager to help you become better acquainted with our nation's ASCs and the people who own and operate them. We are also eager to help you develop policies on ASC-related issues. If you have questions, please contact us. We'll put you in touch with the experts and, if you like, arrange for you to visit an ASC in your area. Contact Us: Advertising inquiries should be addressed to Chris Schriever or Alex Yewdell at 202.337.1897 or at advertising@ascassociation.org. Follow ASCA on
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