ASC Coverage Guidelines Newsletter

Are You Re-Processing Single-Use Devices?

Millennium Surgical can help you comply with Medicare's Conditions for Coverage which prohibits centers to reuse single-use items

We provide:

• Single-use cataract supplies available at low cost to help drive down procedural expenses
• Reusable cannulas and reusable safety cataract knives
• Products safe for use in multiple procedures with full documentation included
• Low-cost diamond knives - help reduce procedural expenses

ASC Coverage Guidelines - 416.51 INFECTION CONTROL

The new condition on infection control, contained in Medicare's revised Conditions for Coverage, states simply that ASCs "must maintain an infection control program that seeks to minimize infections and communicable diseases."

See ASC Coverage Guidelines

Many eye centers have been re-using sterile, single-use products (usually without any negative impact). Several of our eye customers tell us they will now cease this practice to prepare for Medicare surveys.

To accommodate the need to get ready for Medicare surveys, Millennium Surgical provides a large selection of single-use eye supplies at very low prices (compared to Alcon, BD, Cardinal, Walcott, MSI etc.). We can help centers who are changing to single-use products by driving down the cost of these products and facilitating easy order fulfillment as well.

As an alternative to single-use products we also offer products designed for re-use, reducing overall procedural costs.

View the Infection Control Surveyor Worksheet

Contact Millennium today and let us help you comply with Medicare's Conditions for Coverage!

Tel: 800.600.0428
Fax: 800.600.0429
www.surgicalinstruments.com