95% of Medicare ASCs meet quality reporting requirements: 5 things to know

More than 95 percent of the Medicare-certified ASCs successfully met Medicare's ASC Quality Reporting Program requirements for the program's second full year, according to an ASCA report.

Here are five key notes:

1. The surgery centers meeting Medicare's ASC Quality Reporting Program requirements will receive full annual payment updates for the 2016 calendar year.

2. The Medicare-certified facilities collected and reported data on 10 quality measures, including patient burns, patient falls, wrong site/side/patient/procedure/ implant surgery, and hospital admissions or transfers.

3. The reported measures were endorsed by the National Quality forum, a not-for-profit membership-based organization working for healthcare improvements.

4. Next year, the ASCs are required to report on the 10 quality measures in the 2015 program in addition to a measure quantifying the number of patients who visited a hospital within seven days of a colonoscopy in an ASC. The new measure doesn't require ASCs to collect and report the data.

5. ASCs meeting the quality measures affirm the high quality care patients receive in outpatient settings.

"The ASC community welcomes any opportunity to showcase its commitment to high quality care," said ASCA President Terry Bohlke. "After years of encouraging CMS to establish a national quality reporting system, we are pleased but not surprised by the number of ASCs taking advantage of this opportunity to demonstrate to CMS and Medicare beneficiaries the quality of care they provide."

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