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In 2009, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched an oversight and survey program for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) as a requirement to participate in Medicare including a stringent set of infection control regulations. Experts in the field, however, say the CMS regulations sometimes create confusion among infection preventionists at ASCs.

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