Becker's Healthcare January 16, 2025
Francesca Mathewes

Here are three ASC leaders’ predictions of how the economy will affect ASCs in 2025.

Editor’s note: Responses have been lightly edited for clarity and length.

Sean Gipson. Division CEO and President of Remedy Surgery Center in Hurst, Texas: Generally speaking, when the economy is positive, healthcare spending tends to increase. Stakeholders are more willing to spend their hard-earned dollars when the consumers are scheduling elective and/or outpatient procedures and volumes are up. When the overall confidence of both patients and payors is high, the affordability concerns are often low, resulting in relaxed spending habits. Another consideration is the saturation in the market that your ASC resides [in]. Hospital systems are competing in many of the ASC markets...

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