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Outpatient surgery, also known as ambulatory surgery, day surgery, [1] day case surgery, or same-day surgery, is surgery that does not require an overnight hospital stay. [note 1] The term “outpatient” arises from the fact that surgery patients may enter and leave the facility on the same day.
The Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC), founded in 1979, is an American organization which accredits ambulatory health care organizations, including ambulatory surgery centers, office-based surgery centers, endoscopy centers, and college student health centers, as well as health plans, such as health maintenance organizations and preferred provider organizations.
APCs or Ambulatory Payment Classifications are the United States government's method of paying for facility outpatient services for the Medicare (United States) program. A part of the Federal Balanced Budget Act of 1997 made the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services create a new Medicare "Outpatient Prospective Payment System" (OPPS) for hospital outpatient services -analogous to the ...
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It represents all aspects of the Ambulatory Surgery Center industry including the physicians, nurses, administrative staff and owners. The association represents the industry before the media, Congress , state legislatures and regulatory bodies, and advocates for quality standards, insurance coverage by Medicare and private payers, and ...
Hospitals: Including emergency departments and other hospital-based services such as same day surgery services and mental health services. Hospital emergency departments: Some visits to emergency departments result in hospital admission, so these would be considered emergency medicine visits rather than ambulatory care. Most visits to hospital ...
SCA Health (SCA), based in Birmingham, Alabama, is an operator of outpatient surgergy facilities with a network of over 300 ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in 35 states performing more than 1 million outpatient surgery procedures a year.
The plan anticipated adding 1,800 new jobs to the university, building a 123-bed addition to the hospital, a building for clinical and translational sciences, and a new ambulatory surgery center. The flagship hospital of the medical system is Strong Memorial Hospital.