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Special Outpatient Surgery Edition - Megatrends - January 2018

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patients to search for better value is going to reward only those facilities that are prepared for how they'll be paid in the future." Quality pays off CMS's pay-for-performance reimbursement model — reimbursing higher amounts to hospitals that meet certain quality measures — is currently mandated in the inpatient setting, but free-standing outpatient facili- ties are likely to have future payments tied to quality outcomes (see "Mandatory Quality Reporting Program Postponed Again" on page 14). "We've already started down the pay-for-per- formance path and if the trend continues, there's no doubt that it will eventually impact ASCs," says anesthesiologist David Shapiro, MD, CASC, risk manager at Red Hills Surgical Center in Tallahassee, Fla., and past president of the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association. "I'm just not completely sure what that will look like." He believes it would be fairly straightfor- ward to transition to pay-for-performance based on the metrics ASCs already report to the federal government as part of the CMS's Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Reporting Program (ASCQRP). CMS implemented the program to promote higher quality, more effi- 2 0 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • J A N U A R Y 2 0 1 8 ChloraPrep™ is a trademark of Becton, Dickinson and Company. Proven to resist all preps, including ChloraPrep ™ XL Prep Resistant Ink viscotcs@viscot.com • 800.221.0658 • www.viscot.com Get a sample of the CHG compatible marker that's turning heads

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