MEDICARE MONITOR


Measure #1: Safe Surgery Checklist Use To report on your ASC’s use of a safe surgery checklist, you will indicate whether your ASC used a safe surgery checklist at any point during the year 2012. Surgery centers do not need to use a specific checklist in order to be able to answer “yes.” Instead, ASCs are allowed to answer in the affir- mative as long as their checklist ad- dresses safe surgical practices in three perioperative periods: the period prior to the administration of anesthesia, the period prior to skin incision, and the period of closure of incision and prior to the patient leaving the operat- ing room. More information on the safe surgery checklist measure, including examples of checklists, is available on ASCA’s


Between July 1 and August 15, 2013,


ASCs that provide services to Medicare beneficiaries must report 2012 volume data for certain procedures and verify their use of a safe surgery checklist during 2012.”


—Jonathan Beal


web site at www.ascassociation.org/ QualityNetRegistration


Measure #2: Surgical Volume To report the surgical volume measure, you will provide the aggregate count of selected procedures within eight speci- fied specialty categories. All Medicare


and non-Medicare patients will be in- cluded in the count. See the chart on page 25 for the eight specialty categories and included procedures More informa- tion on Medicare’s entire ASC quality re- porting program is available on ASCA’s web site at www.ascassociation.org/ qualityreporting.


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