Becker's Healthcare August 9, 2024
ASCs are consolidating, albeit at a slower rate than physician groups or hospitals, and some leaders are looking for different solutions that don’t involve rescinding independence.
Joe Peluso, administrator at Aestique Surgical Center in Greensburg, Pa., joined Becker’s to discuss his idea for an alternative to consolidation – an “independent management consortium.”
The consortium would allow “12 to 15 ASCs to come together and create economies of scale, including better access to data, that will enable ASCs to deliver cost-effective services to their local communities while maintaining autonomy.”
The consortium would employ a management company, which would charge a fee, but would differ from other models because the company wouldn’t have an ownership interest, he said. The ASC owners...
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