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Is Your ASC Survey Ready? A Little Effort Can Prevent a Lot of Stress
What? You stressed? Not when you have it all under control with organization and preparation and an assortment of binders holding all the paperwork. When it’s time for your ambulatory surgery center’s accreditation survey, you and your well-informed staff will be survey ready.

Ambulatory Surgery Center: Generator Inspection Checklist
Standard 16.05.03 for Generator Inspection is a critical standard for maintaining a reliable generator and emergency power system.

ASC Accreditation: ASC Provider Reimbursement
To help your organization meet requirements for completing Facility Demographic Reports (FDRs), Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) is providing guidance.

Plan Ahead for Potential Drug Recalls
As drug recalls become more common, pharmacies should ensure they are prepared to effectively manage them and minimize risk for patients and their business.

Ambulatory Surgery Center: New Guidance on Your Facility Demographic Report
To help your organization meet requirements for completing Facility Demographic Reports (FDRs), Accreditation Commission for Health Care (ACHC) is providing guidance.

Pharmacy: Standards Require Credential Verification
Verifying pharmacy personnel credentials is important to ensure compliance with payor requirements and government regulations.

Demonstrating Separate Services for Home Infusion Therapy Accreditation
For home infusion therapy (HIT) suppliers, the Medicare Conditions for Coverage (CfCs) apply to an organization as a whole — including all clients/patients and not just Medicare beneficiaries.

Ambulatory Surgery Center: It’s Always Time to Evaluate Quality and Performance
There is one essential plan that should be examined and implemented in the same fashion: Quality Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI).

Pharmacy: Validating Your Shipping System
ACHC Pharmacy Accreditation Standards require an organization to ship pharmaceuticals in a manner that maintains appropriate sanitation, light, and temperature conditions.

Preparing for the End of the COVID-19 PHE
On January 30, 2023, the Biden administration announced that the COVID-19 national emergency and Public Health Emergency will end on May 11, 2023. What does this mean for health care provider and supplier organizations that have come under CMS blanket waivers and enforcement discretion?