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zen in time, except when they are being surveyed. They do enough to get by but are not current in areas such as insurance contracting or vendor pricing.” Those ASCs do not have a person in charge to take care of these things, he says. “As an administrator, you do not know which area of knowledge you will have to apply on a given day. So, the CASC creden- tial was developed to show that there is a minimum number of skills needed for the administrator job, and to validate that the continuing education process is com- pleted. If not, you lose your credential.” CASC exam-takers come from dif- ferent backgrounds. “Many candidates come with a nursing background, many come with a business background, and the CASC credential shows me that whichever professional pathway they come from, they have a better overall


To me, it shows that the person I may be hiring is well- rounded and, more importantly, that they care about the title ‘administrator’ because they have taken the extra step to take the CASC exam.”


— Barbara P. Draves, CASC The Surgery Center of Southwest General


base to take on the rigorous title of an administrator,” Draves says. The CASC credential “is compa-


rable to a Good Housekeeping seal of quality,” Colen says. She recommends that companies preferentially hire CASC-certified staff and preferentially pay their CASC-certified employees. It is really kind of cut and dried,


Weiss sums up. “From an employer’s perspective, it shows that a candidate is


dedicated to the industry and is making a commitment—really like a pledge—to the organization, if hired,” he says. “And while it is a credential geared toward administrators, it is also beneficial in other roles—such as an operations posi- tion in a management company—to have that basic knowledge of how to be a suc- cessful administrator. That basic knowl- edge should not go away just because you are now in an advanced role.”


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