Becker's Healthcare November 20, 2019
1. From the last 10 years up to the last two years or so there’s been almost no growth in the total number of Medicare-certified surgery centers. This is largely because a lot of independent physicians already owned a surgery center or because physicians became employed by health systems and thus weren’t able to invest in a surgery center.
2. Over, the last two years there has been a return to growth. After years of almost the same number of centers opening as closing, in 2017 MedPAC reported about 200 ASCs opened and 61 closed. In 2018, we saw similar growth numbers and there are now 5,600 Medicare-certified ASCs.
3. Hospital systems are looking to expand into outpatient surgery for...
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