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49 Accreditation He's a Spenditt ™ - monsters of inefficiency that hide savings opportunities and limit best pricing for the high quality supplies and services you need. Having one of the largest non-acute group purchasing organizations in the country by your side means greater control over your purchasing power. Keep your surgery center Spenditt free. 877.777.1552 | premierinc.com/continuum-care DON'T FACE HIM ALONE Meet SAVINGS THIEF FUNCTION CMS Quality Reporting Updates in 2015 By Ellie Rizzo M uch like with ICD-10, CMS' quality data collection has been somewhat of a rollercoaster for ASCs this year. Whether it's the influenza vaccine data collection, or data collection of postoperative procedures, ASC quality data col- lection hasn't always been straightforward. The following are sum- maries of ASC quality measure data reporting and collection peri- ods for calendar year 2016. ASC-1 through ASC-5: These claims-based measures, patient burn, patient fall, wrong site/side/patient/implant, hospital trans- fer/admission and prophylactic intravenous antibiotic treatment apply for all measure-relevant claims for services performed be- tween Jan. 1, 2014 to Dec. 31, 2014. ASC-6 and ASC-7: "Safe surgery checklist use" and "ASC facility volume data on selected ASC surgical procedures" both have data collection periods between Jan. 1, 2014 and Dec. 31, 2014. Data submission for the measures begins Jan. 1, 2015 and will go until Aug. 15, 2015. ASC-9 and ASC-10: "Endoscopy/polyp surveillance: Appro- priate follow-up interval for normal colonoscopy in average risk patients" and "endoscopy/polyp surveillance: colonoscopy inter- val for patients with a history of adenomatous polyps — avoid- ance of inappropriate use" have data collection periods between April 1, 2014 and Dec. 31, 2014. As with ASC-6 and ASC-7, the data submission window for the measures is between Jan. 1, 2015 and Aug, 15, 2014. ASC-8: While the data collection period for "influenza vaccina- tion coverage among healthcare personnel" began Oct. 1, 2014 and runs through Mar. 31, 2015, a data submission window has yet to be determined. ASC-11: Data collection for "cataracts: improvement in patient's visual function within 90 days following cataract surgery" begins Jan. 1, 2015 and goes until Dec. 31, 2015, but there is no submission window for the data at this time. n procedure, the American Association for the Accreditation of Ambula- tory Surgery Facilities released statistics on mortality and infection rates in their centers from 15 years of data. According to AAAASF, mortality is one in 50,000 procedures, intraoperative mortality is one in 478,000 procedures and infection is one in 2,400 procedures, with no deaths at- tributable to infection. Disturbingly, while conversations about safety culture occur "frequent- ly" in nine of 10 organizations, just 24 percent of patient safety pro- fessionals feel they have appropriate data to reduce patient harms, ac- cording to a survey from the National Patient Safety Foundation's 2014 annual conference. Finally, while safety is important to patients, it appears being heard, along with having a competent provider is what patients desire in their care. n