News

• Legislative Alert:

  Senator Michael Crapo from Idaho and Representative Wally Herger, from California, have introduced legislation to establish a new ASC payment system and to reform the mechanism that CMS uses to determine what procedures Medicare reimburses ASCs for providing. S. 1884 and H.R. 4042 were developed in concert with the ASC community.

FASA ASC Legislative Alert

AAASC ASC Action Alert

ASC Payment Modernization Act Summary and Facts Fall 2005

ASC Legislation Resources

ASC Advocacy Center - Click here to write your Senator or Representative today!

• Tremendous Victory in Final ASC Procedures List Regulation

  The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will publish this week an interim-final regulation that restores to the ASC procedures list 95 of the 100 services that were proposed for deletion late last year.
  

• CMS Publishes ASC Procedure List Proposed Rule

  Learn More

• AAASC Educates Congress on Medicare Procedure List

           In a June 16, 2004 letter to all members of Congress, AAASC President David

           Shapiro, MD identified the favorable MedPAC recommendation to eliminate the

           restrictive Medicare Procedure list and thus save Medicare and beneficiaries

           millions of dollars annually and provide broader choice to beneficiaries.                      Learn More

• Action Alert

          For Sample letters to Congress on the Medicare Payment Freeze suggested by

          IASCA click on the following links:

          Sample Physicians Letter

          Sample Center Letter

          List of Idaho Congressional Representatives and Senators

• AHA Issues New Policy Paper Opposing “Niche Providers”
  The American Hospital Association (AHA) issued a new policy paper during their meetings on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. that “niche providers” are “undercutting the ability of community hospitals to continue to meet the needs of the broader community”. AHA includes ambulatory surgery centers as a niche provider.

  Learn More

• AAASC Grassroots Advocacy Guide
  This guide is intended to provide the ASC community with basic information about how to influence the government policies that affect our businesses and our patients.
  
  

• AAASC Meets with MEDPAC and GAO

  AAASC President David Shapiro traveled to Washington , DC on April 8 for two important meetings with government study groups evaluating the Medicare ASC program. Dr. Shapiro was joined by AAASC Executive Director, Craig Jeffries, and Washington Counsel, Michael Romansky and Eric Zimmerman. 

• AAASC Develops ASC FactSheet

  Research Reports Supporting Growth of ASCs

  AAASC members and their State Associations need a quick resource to support their public policy advocacy in Washington DC and in the state capitals. The ASC Fact Sheet that we have developed provides that support. If you are aware of other reports or research that is favorable for our industry please send a copy to CraigJeffries@AAASC.org to add to the ASC Fact Sheet.

• AAASC Submits Comments to MedPAC on Value of Physician Ownership in ASCs

• AAASC Encourages MedPAC to Support Elimination of ASC Procedure List

ALERT: FLUOROSCOPIC GUIDANCE NO LONGER BUNDLED WITH SPINAL INJECTIONS

Top of Page