With the 2026 ASC Safety & Quality Assessment still open for submissions through June 15, ASCQC Assistant Executive Director Becky Ziegler-Otis sat down with John Goehle on the “ASC Podcast with John Goehle” to talk through what the ASCQC offers ASCs and why the assessment is worth a center’s time.
Becky walked through how the ASCQC differs from the CMS ASCQR program, a distinction she said often gets lost given how similar the acronyms sound. She also covered the organization’s quarterly benchmarking data, which draws from more than 2,000 ASCs and roughly 2.5 million encounters across nine measures, and is available to any ASC free of charge, regardless of membership status.
The conversation also touched on the ASCQC’s library of quality improvement toolkits, including the newest addition focused on wrong-site, wrong-patient and wrong-procedure prevention.
A good portion of the discussion centered on the ASC Safety & Quality Assessment itself: a free, roughly 20-minute self-assessment covering patient experience, patient safety, culture of safety and infection control and prevention, among other areas. Becky outlined what centers can expect after submitting, including a center-specific report with aggregate comparisons delivered several weeks after close. As always, all data remains confidential.
Listen to the full episode for Becky’s complete conversation with John Goehle, including more on the assessment, the ASCQC’s benchmarking program and the resources available to ASCs.