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IASCA Membership Requirements:

A membership as an Affiliate Member or Facility Member or Facility Member may only be issued to a Person who is a freestanding ambulatory surgical center facility located within the State of Idaho or in a county in an adjoining state whose county line coincides with the state line of the State of Idaho.

An ambulatory surgical center is defined as a facility that is dedicated exclusively for the purpose of providing surgical and anesthetic services to patients. As such the ambulatory surgical center must meet conditions deemed appropriate relative to the scope of ambulatory surgical and anesthetic services so provided. In addition, all Facility Member ambulatory surgical centers must be certified by the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare or Medicare and/ or be accredited by JCAHO/AAAHC.

No ambulatory surgical center affiliated with a hospital owning a controlling interest in such ambulatory surgical center can acquire a Membership. A Controlling interest is defined as fifty-one (51%). In addition, no ambulatory surgical center affiliated with a hospital owning less than a controlling interest in such ambulatory surgical center can acquire a Membership unless such ambulatory surgical center is held as a separate and distinct Entity, with all required certification also held separately and distinctly form any hospital certification.

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