Resources
Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care
Ambulatory Surgery Center Association
Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Reporting Program (Medicare)
The Leapfrog Group
ASC Quality Collaboration
Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care
AAAHC is the leader in ambulatory health care accreditation. With more than 6,600 organizations accredited, they serve a wide range of organizations including ambulatory surgery centers, office-based surgery centers, endoscopy centers, student health centers, medical and dental group practices, community health centers, employer-based health clinics, retail clinics, and Indian/Tribal health centers, among others.
AAAHC advocates for the provision of high-quality health care through the development and adoption of nationally recognized standards. They provide a valuable survey experience founded on a peer-based, educational approach to onsite review. The AAAHC Certificate of Accreditation demonstrates an organization’s commitment to providing safe, high-quality services to its patients—every day of the 1,095-day accreditation cycle. It is recognized by third-party payors, medical professional associations, liability insurance companies, state and federal agencies, and the public.
Ambulatory Surgery Center Association
The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association (ASCA) assists ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in delivering safe, high-quality, cost-effective patient care.
Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Reporting Program (Medicare)
The Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Reporting (ASCQR) Program is a pay-for-reporting, quality data program administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Under this program, ASCs report quality of care data for standardized measures to not receive a payment penalty to their annual payment update to their ASC annual payment rate.
The Leapfrog Group is a nonprofit watchdog organization that serves as a voice for health care consumers and purchasers, using their collective influence to foster positive change in U.S. health care. Leapfrog is the nation’s premier advocate of transparency in health care—collecting, analyzing and disseminating data to inform value-based purchasing and improved decision-making.
The ASC Quality Collaboration is dedicated to advancing high-quality, patient-centered care in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs).The ASC QC strongly supports public reporting of quality data. Their commitment to public reporting is reflected in their online publication of a free quarterly report of ASC quality data, made possible entirely through the voluntary efforts of participants.