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Welcome to MASA!
The health care industry is constantly evolving, and many forces are competing to guide and shape this busy process. Working together to create opportunities helps all of us achieve our goals.
The mission of the Maryland Ambulatory Surgical Association (MASA) is to ensure the choice of quality health care at cost-effective rates.
There is strength in numbers and power in unity! Competing interests in the health care industry are threatened by ASCs and the CHOICE they provide to health care consumers. This powerful opposition is well-equipped and continues to initiate policy adverse to freestanding surgical centers. MASA can help you fight back!
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MASA 2009 Membership Application
Medicare Program:
Changes to the Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System and CY 2010 Payment Rates; Changes to the Ambulatory Surgical Center Payment System and CY 2010 Payment Rates.
Click here for more information.
Click here for 2009 Federal Health Care Reform News
Click here for ASC Growth Study June 2009
Study Counters Assertion That Physician Ownership Drives Up Utilization. Click here for sample letters to legislators, the media and for newsletters.
New CMS Regulations Information Available
What is an ASC? How does CMS now define “overnight stay”? What are the requirements for emergency preparedness? All this information and more:
http://mdasc.org/?page_id=590
The impact of rising unemployment on health insurers’ membership rolls reinforces what analysts and economists say is all but certain: that the number of uninsured likely has risen by several million since the U.S. Census Bureau in 2007 pegged it at 45.7 million. Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that the number of uninsured Americans is now close to 50 million. Wall Street Journal, Thursday, April 23, 2009.
Upcoming ASC Association Events:
Shining Bright with ASCs 2010
Anaheim May 19-22
www.ascassociation.org/ASCs2010
For all meetings, http://www.ascassociation.org/ASCs2009/
ASC Association | The ASC Association is a nonprofit association representing the interests of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) throughout the nation. It represents all aspects of the industry including the physicians, nurses, administrative staff, and owners.