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Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
Quality Programs

Fees

Fee Type

Fee Amount

Due

Services Included

Participation Fee for Centers in the United States and Canada (Ambulatory, Low Acuity, Comprehensive, Comprehensive/Adolescent, Adolescent)**

Annual fee of $9,963 for Comprehensive designations

Annual fee of $9,315 for Low Acuity, Adolescent, and Ambulatory Surgical Centers

Center will be invoiced upon receipt of Pre-Application (for initial applicants only); first payment is due prior to submission of Application and annually thereafter.

  • Application review and processing
  • On-site survey conducted by an MBSAQIP Surgeon Surveyor for standards verification and program consultation
  • Database Access
  • Ongoing MBSCR Training and Certification
  • Clinical and Technical Support
  • Online real-time reports
  • Semi Annual Risk-Adjusted (SAR) Reports*

Participation Fee for International Data Collection Centers

Annual fee of $10,350

Center will be invoiced upon submission of Data Collection Center Application; fee must be remitted prior to receiving access to MBSCR training or database.

  • Application review and processing
  • Database Access
  • Ongoing MBSCR Training and Certification
  • Clinical and Technical Support
  • Online real-time reports
  • Semi Annual Risk-Adjusted (SAR) Reports*

Conversion Application Fee (converting between Accredited designation levels)**

One-time fee of $1,000 only applicable for Accredited centers applying to change designation level outside of existing renewal cycle. Centers applying to convert at the time of scheduled renewal will not be invoiced this fee.

Center will be invoiced upon request for off-cycle Conversion Application.

Please contact mbsaqip@facs.org to initiate conversion application process.

  • Application review and processing

Additional Site Survey Fee**

One-time fee of $3,000 only applicable when:

MBSAQIP Committee determines that an additional off-cycle survey is required

OR

A participating center seeks to convert status to an Accreditation designation off-cycle. Centers applying to convert at the time of scheduled renewal will not be invoiced this fee.

Center will be invoiced upon determination of a required off-cycle/conversion survey.

Please contact mbsaqip@facs.org to initiate conversion application process.

  • On-site survey conducted by an MBSAQIP Surgeon Surveyor for standards verification and program consultation
Data Integrity Audit Fee One-time fee of $3,500

Center will be invoiced upon notification for Data Integrity Audit.

Please contact clinicalsupport@mbsaqip.org regarding the Data Integrity Audit process.
  • Pre-audit meeting with Clinical Support Team
  • Private and secure remote data audit of random sample cases
  • Center will receive a detailed summary report of the audit results

*Center must have complete 30-day follow-up for a minimum of 80% of cases within a SAR period to receive a report.

**Designation as an MBSAQIP Accredited center is only available at this time to centers within the United States and Canada.

This service is only provided for centers in the United States and Canada that are seeking accreditation.