Members of the New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers will "train in" to Washington, D.C., on Sept. 14 to show their support for the ASC Quality and Access Act of 2011, according to a news release from NJAASC.
More than a dozen members of the non-profit association will lobby the New Jersey Congressional delegation to support the legislation (HR 2108; S 1173), which aims to preserve patient access to high-quality, cost-effective healthcare services that ASCs provide.
The bill would put into place policies to establish reasonable Medicare reimbursement for ASCs while encouraging additional cost savings for Medicare. It would help "modernize" the way ASCs are paid by tying ASC Medicare payment updates to the Hospital Market Basket, rather than to the volatile Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers.
"The Quality and Access Act is absolutely vital for patients, as well as for our industry," said Jeffrey Shanton, chair of the NJAASC advocacy and legislative affairs committee, in the release. "Nothing testifies to the importance of this legislation more clearly than the fact that so many of our senior members are willing to take a full day from their busy schedules to lobby in support of it."
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