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Our Mission:
The Minnesota Ambulatory Surgery Center Association 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 Minnesota’s health care consumers.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
Upcoming ASC Association Events:
Shining Bright with ASCs 2010
Anaheim May 19-22
www.ascassociation.org/ASCs2010
ASC Nurse’s Seminar
Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate
October 29, 2009
ChampionsGate, FL
For all meetings, http://www.ascassociation.org/ASCs2009/
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.