Office-Based Surgery Accreditation For New York State

Learn more:

• Click here for the New York Department of Health page for more information about the state legislation requiring accreditation.
  
• Click here for a quick guide guide to the process. 
  
• Print our 2009 Office-Based Surgery pricing worksheet to calculate your 3-year accreditation fee.
  
• Search Quality Check to see which of your colleagues are currently Joint Commission accredited.

How to Become Accredited 

• View  the accreditation process
• Talk to a Joint Commission accredited colleague about their experience

Accreditation deadline:
July 14, 2009

More Resources

• Through a Surveyors Eyes
• FAQs about New York Office-Based Surgery Accreditation requirement *
• More information about Adverse Event Reporting
• Sign up here for our free New York Office-Based Surgery email update 
• Recent News

Please note: accreditation does not create an entitlement to enhance revenue or charge a “facility fee,” except as negotiated between the OBS practice and its insurers

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Contact us:

• email us at OBS@jointcommission.org