Did You Know?

• Medicare, beginning in 2009, allows outpatient surgery centers to install pacemakers in Medicare beneficiaries?
• ASC infection rates are SIGNIFICANTLY lower than hospital infection rates.
• In addition to state and federal inspections, many ASC’s choose to go through voluntary accreditation by an independent accrediting organization such as JCAHO, AAAHC, or AAAASF.
• According to a recent study by Fleisher LA, Pasternak LR, Herbert R, Anderson GF, rates of death were lower in freestanding ASC’s as compared to hospitals.
• Medicare requirements for ASCs and Hospitals are the same where services are comparable.
• Procedures that only a few years ago required larger incisions, long-acting anesthetics, and extended stay times in a hospital are now being done in ASCs as closed techniques utilizing short-acting anesthesia, and minimal recovery time.
• ASCs are efficient, understanding that everyone’s time is important. Their convenient surgical flow allows you less wait time and less bureaucracy offering patient-friendly family-centered environments.
• Medicare, beginning in 2009, allows outpatient surgery centers to perform uni-compartmental knee replacements on Medicare beneficiaries?