Becker's Healthcare February 28, 2025
As more procedures shift to the outpatient setting, many ASCs are feeling the financial squeeze, with rising costs and stagnant reimbursements making it increasingly difficult to maintain healthy margins.
Six ASC leaders joined Becker’s to discuss how these reimbursement declines could affect ASC sustainability.
Question: If reimbursement rates fail to keep pace with rising practice costs, do you think ASCs can sustain themselves long term? If so, how?
Editor’s note: These responses were edited lightly for clarity and length.
Christine Blackburn, BSN, RN. Administrator of South Kansas City Surgicenter (Overland Park, Kan.): If reimbursement rates fail to keep pace with rising practice costs, it will be challenging for ASCs to sustain themselves in the long term without strategic...
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