The ASC Quality Collaboration is dedicated to advancing high quality, physician-led and patient-centered care in ambulatory surgery center.

Leaders from the ambulatory surgery center (ASC) industry and associations with a focus on healthcare quality and safety have formed the ASC Quality Collaboration. This Collaboration is engaged in a mutual effort to identify specific measures for quality appropriate to ASCs. This leadership group envisions the development of a standardized set of ambulatory surgery quality measures. It is anticipated that these measures will be in the public domain and used in discussion on pay-for-performance, responding to state data collection initiatives, collaborating with payors and others in providing consumer information, and benchmarking information primarily for quality improvement goals in individual ASCs. Consensus of the leadership group has lead to an initial focus on patient safety related measures. more...