October 7, 2026- The ASC Safety & Quality Assessment survey, designed to help ASC leadership check the success of their processes and protocols compared to other ASCs in the country, is in its second year after launching in 2025.
Repertoire Magazine spoke to Nina Goins, executive director of the ASC Quality Collaboration, about the ASC Safety & Quality Assessment survey and what it can tell us about the level of safety and quality within the ambulatory surgery space.
What is the ASCQC?
The ASC Quality Collaboration is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing patient safety and quality of care in ASCs nationwide. Since its founding in 2006, ASCQC has played a leading role in developing standardized quality measures, promoting transparency and providing practical resources to help ASCs improve performance.
The organization developed six of the quality measures that CMS uses for its ASC Quality Reporting Program, a pay-for-reporting program that collects and publicly reports facility-level quality measure data from ASCs paid under the ASC Fee Schedule (ASCFS) for care provided in these settings. The ASCQC maintains one of the largest and longest-running ASC quality benchmarking databases in the country, which collects data from over 2,000 ASCs and over 2.5 million patient encounters each quarter, allowing centers to compare their performance against reliable national benchmarks and identify opportunities for improvement.
Goins said, “We work closely with industry leaders, quality professionals, and regulatory stakeholders to analyze trends, share best practices and develop practical resources such as assessments, toolkits, educational programs, and guidance documents that help ASCs strengthen safety and quality.”
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