Benchmarking Resources

The ASC Association and the Ambulatory Surgery Foundation have gathered valuable resources to help the benchmarking efforts of your ASC. Use the links below to learn more.

Publications

Benchmarking for Dummies
A beginner's guide to using benchmarking to evaluate your ASC's performance in a variety of areas. Makes a great companion to the 2007 ASC Financial Benchmarking Survey.

Finance & Accounting for ASCs, 2nd Edition
Using real world ASC examples, this book covers fundamental concepts every ASC manager needs to know to maintain the financial health of an ASC. This important ASC tool includes information on basic accounting principles, financial statements, financial analysis, benchmarking, preparing strategic plans and budgeting.

2007 ASC Financial Benchmarking Survey

2010 ASC Employee Salary & Benefits Survey
Our annual ASC Employee Salary & Benefits Survey contains national and regional data on the salaries and benefits ASCs pay for the 17 most common staff positions in ASCs. State-specific and in-state regional data are available for select states.

Outcomes Monitoring Project
With this tool, you will be able to benchmark your ASC's outcomes to members across the country. The quarterly reports are available free of charge to all participating ASC Association members and allow ASCs to compare their facility's specific data on 38 key indicators with national performance on these indicators. Participate Today!

ASC Focus Articles

ASC Focus is our bi-monthly newsletter that contains information on ASC Association activities and information on ambulatory surgery issues. For more ASC Focus Articles, please visit the ASC Focus section.

ASC 411 on Outcomes Monitoring Project (May/June 2008)

ASC Quality Data Reporting (September/October 2007 Article)

Mythbusting for ASCs (September/October 2006 Article)

Putting FASA's New Benchmarking Tool to Work (September/October 2005 Article)

Data Reporting: Will Your ASC Be Required to Do More? (July/August 2005)