Becker's Healthcare March 26, 2025
The ASC industry faces a number of growing trends reshaping the way that leaders and physicians think about the future of their practices.
Here are five emerging trends disrupting the ASC industry:
1. Price transparency. On Feb. 25, President Donald Trump signed an executive order targeted at boosting healthcare price transparency. The order directed HHS and the Labor and Treasury departments to “rapidly implement and enforce” healthcare price transparency enforcement regulations.
ASCs have also noticed an increased emphasis on price transparency in their patient populations.
“Patients are becoming more cost-conscious and seeking out options that provide better value. Most ASCs are more cost-effective than hospitals for certain procedures,” Sean Gipson, division CEO and president of Remedy Surgery Center...