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COVER STORY


Benchmark to Meet Accreditation Requirements, Improve Operations


Review Medicare’s interpretive guidelines, state licensure rules and your accreditation organization's standards BY ROBERT KURTZ


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einforcing that your ASC is on par with like facilities. Identify- ing trends in need of improvement. Validating your commitment to the provision of high-quality care. These are some of the most important reasons your ASC should perform benchmarking, says Susan Kizirian chief operating officer for Ambulatory Surgical Centers of America in Hanover, Massachusetts. “Benchmarking is a great tool to not only strengthen the delivery of care but highlight the great care your ASC is already providing,” she says. To run an efficient ASC, you must ensure you are continuously looking


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ASCA’s Clinical & Operational Benchmarking Survey provides quality and performance data to improve clinical outcomes, billing performance and staffing at ASCs. ASCA members save $150 on subscriptions.


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for ways to improve yourself clini- cally and financially, says Clare Clif- ton, RN, CASC, practice administra- tor and director of the American Eye Surgery Center in Athens, Georgia.


10 ASC FOCUS FEBRUARY 2021 | ascfocus.org


“Benchmarking shows you where your performance stacks up and helps you create goals for growth.” In addition, the accreditation


organizations and the Centers for Medicare &


Medicaid Services


(CMS) require ASCs to collect data in an ongoing fashion, says Tina DiMarino, RN, CASC, administra- tor for Mid-Atlantic Surgery Pavil- ion in Aberdeen, Maryland, and chief of operations for Custom Surgical Consultants. "This requirement is in place because they want us to always perform at the highest level that we can as an organization.”


Understanding Standards Taking the time to understand what the


accrediting organizations


and


CMS expect concerning benchmark- ing puts an ASC on the path to mak- ing the most of its efforts, Kizirian


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