What are Ambulatory Surgery Centers?
Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) are innovative health care facilities that specialize in providing important surgical and preventive services in an outpatient setting. They are staffed by highly-trained and licensed medical professionals and equipped with full operating rooms providing patients with a wide array of therapeutic and diagnostic ambulatory procedures at a low cost to both the patient and the health care system.
Did You Know?
Many ASCs focus on services that are recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and Healthy People 2010 & 2020, such as colonoscopy screening.
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There are more than 5,200 Medicare-certified ASCs across all 50 states, with more than 1,000 facilities owned in partnerships with community hospitals
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ASCs save Medicare $2,000,000,000 (2 billion) annually by providing low-cost services
