Becker's Healthcare January 10, 2025
Certificate-of-need laws, which regulate the development of healthcare facilities, continue to shape the development of ASCs differently in each state, according to L.E.K. Consulting’s “2024 ASC Insights Study.“
Here are five takeaways from the study:
1. The compound annual growth rate of Medicare-certified ASCs between 2019 and 2023 was highest — at least 4% — in Arizona, Mississippi and South Carolina, according to the report. South Carolina is the only state that has repealed its ASC-specific CON law since 2020.
2. The next-highest bracket of CAGR for ASCs was between 2% and 4%, which also correlated somewhat with a lack of CON regulation. Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Indiana and Michigan all fell...
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