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National Public Radio (NPR) aired a segment about ASCs last evening (January 12) on its financial analysis program Marketplace. You can review a transcript of the report or listen to a recorded broadcast by clicking here.

The report presents a view of ASCs from three perspectives:

• Inside an ASC, with ASC Association member, Surgery Center at BrintonLake in Glen Mills, PA
• Inside a hospital
• From the ASC Association, in an interview with ASC Association President Kathy Bryant

The reporter worked with the ASC Association to prepare her report. NPR invites its listeners to add comments to its web site about the stories the station airs. You can help promote the ASC message by adding yours. To submit a comment, go to the web site identified above and select the "Comment" box that precedes the text of the report. As NPR requests, "Please be civil, brief and relevant." We also suggest that you use statistics and personal narratives to give your remarks special meaning. If you know patients with good experiences to share, please encourage them to write as well. According to NPR, extra-interesting comments may be read on the air.

(Los Angeles)— On behalf of Ambulatory Surgery Centers (ASCs) across the country, Hooper, Lundy and Bookman, Inc. filed a national class action complaint on July 27, 2009, challenging UnitedHealth Group, Inc. and other health plans’ misuse of the Ingenix, Inc. database, to knowingly underpay ASCs by millions of dollars over the years. More