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ASCs in the news: Massachusetts makes it harder to build new ASCs, clinics
Ambulatory Surgery Reimbursement Update, November 25, 2008
In a move aimed at containing healthcare costs and preventing unfair competition,
While the move chiefly seeks to contain the growth of suburban outpatient clinics owned by
"As public health folks, we believe it's critically important for healthcare reform to succeed," John Auerbach, DPH, the state's public health commissioner told the newspaper. "So we have to pay attention not only to access and quality of care, but cost."
The paper reports that increased oversight of outpatient facilities was part of a wide-ranging cost-control law sponsored by Senate President Therese Murray and passed by the
The Globe reports that the president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Bruce Auerbach, MD, FACEP, said the Society "supports efforts to rein in the untenable and unsupportable trend in healthcare spending" and that reducing duplication of services is central to that goal. According to the newspaper, Auerbach concedes that physicians intending to open new ASCs might be less positive about the state’s decision.
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