Becker's Healthcare October 24, 2024
ASCs continue to face significant challenges securing anesthesia providers due to declining reimbursements and growing shortages. Many centers are being forced to rethink their anesthesia models as competition increases, making it harder to retain anesthesiologists.
As reimbursements rapidly decline, some ASCs are being asked by their contracted anesthesia groups for a stipend — a minimum daily payment — to ensure anesthesiologists are fairly compensated and anesthesia groups maintain a reasonable profit margin.
Bruce Feldman, administrator of Eastern Orange Ambulatory Surgery Center in Cornwall, N.Y., is introducing a new approach to anesthesia stipends. His center plans to have surgeons pay a fee if they don’t meet the minimum number of cases required for their assigned block of operating time.
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