Becker's Healthcare August 14, 2023
Here are five factors making ASC leaders nervous about the future:
1. Physicians are increasingly moving to employed models, and privately owned practices are being incorporated into healthcare systems. The number of physicians working in private practice between 2012 and 2022 declined by 13 percent, according to a report from the American Medical Association. Many leaders worry that this will stifle the amount of ASCs opened by larger players in the industry.
“For those hospital systems that encourage a partnership with freestanding ASCs, I’m hopeful, but there are plenty of healthcare systems that knowingly remove affordable options in their community in order to sustain their bottom line,” Marie Yarborough, administrative director of Walnut Creek, Calif.-based Sequoia Surgical Pavilion, told...
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