Member Alerts

The 2025 Legislative Session began on Tuesday, March 4th, 2025.

FSASC is already tracking hundreds of measures that could affect your ability to serve patients. We will keep members updated throughout the session and will send alerts when critical issues arise. Thank you for trusting FSASC to represent your ASC at the capital during the 2025 Legislative Session!

Check this page every week for updated bill lists.

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March 6, 2025 Project 396

FSASC is excited to announce Project 396 - a new legislative initiative for 2025 that seeks to address the historic imbalance between Hospitals and ASCs. Since 1978, ASCs have been included in the Hospital licensure statute (Florida Statute 395 or “F.S. 395”). While inclusion made sense in the 1970s, the ASC industry has drastically changed in the intervening 50 years with ASCs becoming the leading low-cost option for elective surgical care in Florida. Thus, it is time that ASCs were granted their own licensure statute.

Accordingly, FSASC has partnered with Representative Tiffany Esposito of Florida’s 77th District and with Senator Jay Trumbull of the 2nd District to introduce HB 475 and SB 1370 which grant ASCs their own licensure statute (tentatively designated as Florida Statute 396). If passed, these Bills would secure equal dignity for ASCs with Hospitals by granting ASCs their own provisions tailored for ASCs. As drafted, these Bills do not make major changes to ASCs’ current licensure framework; however, FSASC expects that separate licensure will result in major benefits to Florida’s ASC industry by 1) eliminating regulatory confusion; 2) reducing ASCs’ financial burdens; and 3) empowering the Legislature to create unique provisions for the benefit of Florida ASCs.

There are several instances across F.S. 395 where the law is clearly written to govern Hospitals yet is applied to ASCs arbitrarily. This creates confusion about which rules apply to ASCs and which do not. For example, F.S. 395’s standards for licensure, fees, and inspection costs are based on how many “Hospital Beds” a facility has. However, by definition, ASCs have no Hospital Beds. While this provision has been interpreted to ignore the word “Hospital” when applied to ASCs, this amounts to violating the letter of the law to preserve the spirit. Florida ASCs deserve better than a workaround.

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November 13, 2024

Changes Coming in Florida Medicaid

The Florida Statewide Medicaid Managed Care (SMMC) program is changing beginning February 1, 2025. Dental procedures requiring anesthesia will be moved from their current medical coverage to coverage by dental plans.

Medicaid believes that this will provide greater reimbursement value and improved claim processing times for providers. ASCs wishing to provide procedures under Medicaid Dental will have two plans available to contract: DentaQuest and LIBERTY.

Here is a new dental program highlight sheet. You may also find the following links helpful: