{"id":2152,"date":"2018-08-29T10:19:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-29T17:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/?p=2152"},"modified":"2018-08-29T10:19:16","modified_gmt":"2018-08-29T17:19:16","slug":"dr-downey-aaaasf-medicare-surgery-center-surveyor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/?p=2152","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Downey is a AAAASF Medicare Surgery Center Surveyor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Dr Downey is also a surveyor for Medicare. In addition to his own ASC (Ambulatory Surgery Center) being Medicare-certified by AAAASF (American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities), he performs on-site inspections of other stand-alone ASCs on behalf of Medicare as a representative of AAAASF. This has taken him and a registered nurse co-surveyor to many fine facilities throughout the Western states. Fellow medical directors of their ASCs are encouraged to enter training to become surveyors also.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dr-downey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_8817.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2154 size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dr-downey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_8817-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_8817-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/IMG_8817.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Downey is also a surveyor for Medicare. In addition to his own ASC (Ambulatory Surgery Center) being Medicare-certified by AAAASF (American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities), he performs on-site inspections of other stand-alone ASCs on behalf of Medicare as a representative of AAAASF. This has taken him and a registered nurse co-surveyor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2155,"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2152\/revisions\/2155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}