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The Kansas Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers is committed to ensuring that surgery centers continue to thrive as a distinct model for the delivery of safe, affordable and advanced surgical services to Kansas’ health care consumers.
KAASC Upcoming Events
2010 Annual Education Conference
April 22 & 23, 2010
Overland Park Sheraton
KAASC Annual Education Conference – Save the Date
KAASC Annual Education Conference 2010 – Agenda
KAASC Annual Education Conference 2010 Registration Form
KAASC 2010 Sponsor Package
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Calling All Kansas ASCs!
Please click here 2009 Kansas ASC Survey for a survey of your surgery center, which will be compiled with others and used to promote the safety and cost-effective nature of ambulatory surgery centers with legislators, officials and the public. All information will be kept confidential and rolled into a document for averaging. Please complete the survey and send it per the directions at the bottom of the survey. Let’s all do our part to present our businesses to our fellow Kansans as the great option that they are.
Medicare Program:
Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and CY 2010 Payment Rates; Changes to the Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System and CY 2010 Payment Rates.
Click here for more information.
Click here for 2009 Federal Health Care Reform News
Click here for ASC Growth Study June 2009
Study Counters Assertion That Physician Ownership Drives Up Utilization. Click here for sample letters to legislators, the media and for newsletters.
New CMS Regulations Information Available
What is an ASC? How does CMS now define “overnight stay”? What are the requirements for emergency preparedness? All this information and more:
2009 Medicare Resources Now Available
U.S Living Will Registry | Click here
Kansas Living Will | Click here
Employer health care costs are expected to rise almost 10% – double the annual inflation rate – in 2008, according to a study by PriceWaterhouseCoopers published June 17 in USA Today. The study predicts an additional 9.6% rise in 2009. Two factors are cited as driving up costs: A hospital building boom, and an increase in the expenses that people who have insurance are paying for people without insurance.
According to Fidelity Investments, an average 65-year-old couple will need $225,000 just for medical costs in retirement not covered by Medicare, up from $215,000 in 2007, published July 1 in USA Today.
The impact of rising unemployment on health insurers’ membership rolls reinforces what analysts and economists say is all but certain: that the number of uninsured likely has risen by several million since the U.S. Census Bureau in 2007 pegged it at 45.7 million. Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that the number of uninsured Americans is now close to 50 million. Wall Street Journal, Thursday, April 23, 2009.
Upcoming ASC Association Events:
Shining Bright with ASCs 2010
Anaheim May 19-22
www.ascassociation.org/ASCs2010
ASC Association | The ASC Association is a nonprofit association representing the interests of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) throughout the nation. It represents all aspects of the industry including the physicians, nurses, administrative staff, and owners.