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08/05/2024
CASA Benchmarking and ASC-20 Deadline Approaching August 15, 2024
The CASA Benchmarking 2nd quarter data entry is open and will close on August 15, 2024. Also, the next data submission deadline for ASC-20: COVID-19 Vaccination Coverage Among Health Care Personnel is Thursday, August 15, and covers the data collected in the first quarter of 2024, January 1 through March 31.
Patients, payors, accrediting agencies, and regulators want to see ASC outcome data, and the CASA benchmarking program helps your ASC compare your statistics. The more members that participate, the stronger the data is. If you are new to using the program or need a refresher, CASA has developed a tutorial webinar. In addition, there are several tools to help you in gathering the data for each quarter. You can access the webinar and tools at CASA Benchmarking Resources.
For ASC 20 this data is submitted by facilities through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) website for at least one self-selected week each month. The date the week ends determines which month that week is attributed to. For example, reporting data for the week of Monday, January 29, through Sunday, February 4, 2024, is considered as data for February because the week ends in that month.
The CDC retired the Excel Data Tracking Worksheet this year. However, an optional Person-Level COVID-19 Vaccination Form is available in the Healthcare Personnel Safety (HPS) component of the NHSN application. The CDC created the Transferring Excel Tracking Worksheet Data to the Person-Level Form as a guide for how to transfer COVID-19 vaccination data from the Excel tracking worksheet to the Person-Level .CSV file to upload into the Person-Level COVID-19 Vaccination Form.
Here more about the proposed Quality reporting Measures and how ASCs are meeting these demands at the CASA Conference, September 4-6, 2024, in Anaheim, CA.
