ambulatory surgical center , ASC (Abkürzung)

"We have seen it in a lot of areas, particularly ambulatory surgical centers and new hospitals.

The number of operations performed in ambulatory surgical centers and doctors' offices continues to increase.

"You're giving physicians an incentive not to do procedures in hospitals or ambulatory surgical centers."

Outside the two campuses, the hospital's 120 off-site doctors are also connected to the system, as is the center's new ambulatory surgical center.

They are considering a $200 limit, when the lens is implanted at clinics known as ambulatory surgical centers.

Medicare payment basics: Ambulatory surgical center services payment system (October 12, 2011)

In 2013, Deuell co-authored legislation that would require abortion providers to abide by the same regulations as ambulatory surgical centers.

Her mother, Marcia Gowen, is the director of project planning at the Center for Specialty Care, an ambulatory surgical center in Manhattan.

Burton currently works at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona as director of the ambulatory surgical center.

Memorial Surgical is a licensed ambulatory surgical center on the campus of Virtua Memorial Hospital Burlington County.

HFAP provides accreditation programs for hospitals, clinical laboratories, ambulatory surgical centers / office based surgery (OBS), and critical access hospitals.

For his support of ambulatory surgical centers, Kefalas was awarded the Legislator of the Year Award by the Colorado Ambulatory Surgery Center Association later that year.

Summit Surgical is a licensed ambulatory surgical center that relocated in the Spring of 2012 to the Health and Wellness Center attached to the Virtua Voorhees Hospital.

Emergency departments, inpatient hospital settings, ambulatory surgical centers, independent diagnostic testing facilities, skilled nursing facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities and hospices are not considered primary care settings under this definition.

In 2010, Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli issued a non-binding legal opinion that would allow the Board to regulate outpatient abortion clinics as if they were hospital facilities called "ambulatory surgical centers."

The benefits include primary and preventive care, including physical exams, immunizations and general health care; outpatient surgery in a doctor's office or an ambulatory surgical center, outpatient X-ray and lab work, mammography screening and gynecological services.

Other "savings would have to be found in private Medicare Advantage plans, Medicare's Part D prescription-drug program, or spending on skilled-nursing facilities, home-based health care, dialysis, durable medical equipment, ambulance services, and services of ambulatory surgical centers".

The Ambulatory Services and Diagnostics Center would also house an ambulatory surgical center, an outpatient cancer treatment center, an education center, a women's health services center, radiology (X-ray) and laboratory services, as well as several support services.

The number of outpatient clinics, walk-in medical treatment centers, ambulatory surgical centers and H.M.O.'s, all of which employ nurses, has tremendously increased over the last few years, said the associate vice president for public affairs for the hospital association, Albert F. May.

These benefits are subject to some limits, which differ based on the level of the health facility/hospital (level 1 to 4 hospitals and the Ambulatory surgical centers equivalent to level 2 hospitals) and the severity of the cause of admission (case-type A, B, C and D).

In 1999, the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and other national organizations drew attention to the problem, saying they were concerned that patients' safety may have been compromised by cost containment measures and the increase in the number of out-patient operations performed at ambulatory surgical centers.