CMS Releases 2025 Final Payment Rule
Letter from 24 Members of Congress to HHS Secretary Tom Price asking him to use his statutory authority to move ASCs from the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) to the hospital market basket. #CongressionalOutreach
5.26.2017 ASC Ltr to Price.pdf
A review of commercial medical-claims data found that U.S. healthcare costs are reduced by more than $38 billion per year due to the availability of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) as an appropriate setting for outpatient procedures. #CongressionalOutreach #StudyorWhitePaper #Grassroots
ASC Cost Savings Study.pdf
Sponsor an event at your ASC provides an excellent opportunity to acquaint policy makers, the residents of your community and local media with your ASC and all of the benefits that ASCs provide. #ASCOpenHouseDay #Guide #CongressionalOutreach #Grassroots #ToolKitorWorksheet
National ASC Day Toolkit_20130711.pdf
Please use the letter template below to invite your legislator(s) to tour your facility. #CongressionalOutreach #ASCChampions #FormorTemplate #Grassroots #ASCOpenHouseDay
ASC Facility Invite Letter Template.docx
ASCA sent a letter to CMS expressing concern over the inclusion of ASC patient encounters in determining whether physicians are “meaningful users” of EHRs under the CMS HITECH EHR incentive/penalty program. #CongressionalOutreach
MEANINGFULuseLETTER.pdf
This week thirteen United States Senators sent a letter to CMS seeking data on the recent trend of ASCs being purchased and converted to hospital outpatient departments. #CongressionalOutreach
Senate Letter to CMS Requests Data on ASC Conversions.pdf
A letter signed by 16 Republican House members is seeking modification of a CMS guideline prohibiting the multiple use of vials labeled for single use. #CongressionalOutreach
House Letter Seeks Change in Single Use Vial Policy.pdf
ASCA announced today their support for the recently introduced bipartisan legislation (H.R. 4120), sponsored by U.S. Representative Charlie Dent (PA-15). The legislation would correct an oversight in current law that requires Medicare beneficiaries to cover the cost of their co-payment for a ...
ASCA Supports Bipartisan Legislation to Expand Colorectal Screening.pdf
Establishes that the standards and associated operating rules adopted by HHS shall, among other things, require minimal augmentation by paper or other communication, describe all data elements (including reason and remark codes) in unambiguous terms, and prohibit additional conditions except...
Summary of ACA provisions for Administrative Simplification.pdf
Law designed to introduce Immediate Improvements in health care coverage for all Americans #ASCChampions #CongressionalOutreach #PressRelease
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.pdf
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