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20 CODING & BILLING Majority and Minority Interest Sales | Real Estate Sales / Leasebacks | Outpatient Surgical and Affiliated Practice Exper tise Considering Selling an Interest in your ASC, Practice or your Real Estate... You need to consider the following, EVEN if you know who you want to sell to For the past 20 years ASCs Inc. has focused exclusively on representing the best interests of physician-owners who are considering selling an interest in their ASC, surgical hospital or practices. Our industry leading team leverages the knowledge and expertise gained from successfully managing 300 transactions to ensure that our clients end up with the best possible results. This is likely a once in a career event involving your most valuable business asset Owners are at a significant disadvantage when dealing with experienced buyers You will most likely underestimate how complex and time consuming this process is Best outcomes come from running a proven competitive process Representing Physician-Owners (203) 733-8818 • info@ascs-inc.com • www.ASCs-Inc.com CMS to mandate surgery center employees get COVID-19 vaccine or risk losing payment By Laura Dyrda C MS plans to require ASCs, along with all other healthcare providers, to mandate COVID-19 vac- cines for staff as a condition of participating in Medicare. The agency issued emergency regulations mandat- ing vaccination for nursing home workers Aug. 18 and expanded the regulations to include hospitals, ASCs, di- alysis facilities and home health agencies Sept. 9. CMS is expected to issue an interim final with additional details on the vaccination mandate in October, followed by a comment period. "We know that those working in healthcare want to do what is best for their patients in order to keep them safe," Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, CMS administrator, said in a statement. "As the delta variant continues to spread, we know the best defense against it lies with the COVID-19 vaccine. Data shows that the higher the level of vaccina- tion rates among providers and staff, the lower the infec- tion rate is among patients who are dependent upon them for care. Now is the time to act." The statement from CMS urges all Medicare-certified ASCs and healthcare facilities to prepare for its new COVID-19 vaccine requirements and have unvaccinated employees begin the vaccination process immediately. CMS made the announcement in tandem with Presi- dent Joe Biden's Sept. 9 speech, where he announced an emergency rule requiring all companies with 100 or more employees to mandate vaccinations or have unvac- cinated workers test negative for COVID-19 at least once per week, according to The New York Times.n