Ambulatory Surgery Centers ASC

Ambulatory Surgery Centers ASC

Ambulatory surgery centers (ASC) also known as outpatient surgery centers or same day surgery centers are medical facilities where surgical procedures that do not require an overnight hospital stay are performed. These surgeries are usually not as complicated as most and do not require an overnight stay. The ability to avoid hospitalization saves cost and expense to both the ASC and the patient. It is a win win for everyone.

ASC’s are healthcare facilities that specialize in providing surgery, including pain management and diagnostic health care services in an outpatient type setting. To put it simply, ASC-qualified procedures are usually thought of as procedures that are more intensive than those done in the average doctor’s office but not so much as to require an overnight hospital stay. An ambulatory surgery center and a specialty hospital often provide very similar healthcare facilities and support similar types of procedures. The specialty hospital may provide the same procedures or slightly more complex ones and the specialty hospital will often allow an overnight stay. ASCs do not routinely provide emergency services to patients who have not been admitted to the ASC for another procedure.

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