Becker's Healthcare December 30, 2025
Health systems have been leaning into ASC development in recent years as patient preferences, value-based incentives and operational costs make the outpatient shift a central aspect of growth strategies.
Walter Allen Fink, DO, chief medical officer of UT Health San Antonio, recently joined Becker’s to discuss the challenges his health system has faced as it ramps up their ASC operations.
Editor’s note: This response has been lightly edited for clarity and length:
Question: What are you feeling excited about as it relates to outpatient growth?
Dr. Fink: We’re doing a lot of complex [gastrointestinal] work, advanced endoscopy work, a lot of which is outpatient. There’s some that still ends up staying in the hospital, but there’s a fair...
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