Becker's Healthcare July 30, 2024
Paige Haeffele

The last five years have been competitive in the outpatient surgery sector, with factors including declining reimbursements, staff shortages and rising costs forcing some ASCs to close their doors permanently.

Here is an overview of the ASCs that have closed between 2020 and 2024.

2020:

Advanced Pain Management, a Wisconsin-based chain of pain management practices and surgery centers, shut down 10 locations in 2020.

Oakland, Calif.-based Kaiser Permanente closed an ASC and ended gastroenterology services at Wailuku (Hawaii) Medical Office, moving surgical and GI services into Maui Memorial Medical Center in Kahului, Hawaii.

2021:

Asheboro, N.C.-based Randolph Health closed the Randolph Health Surgery Center in March to save $1.1 million in operating costs.

Cleveland Clinic Union Hospital in Dover,...

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