Becker's Healthcare May 12, 2022
Texas is potentially the best state to open an ASC, while New Jersey and other states fall short.
The Southern ASC market has been a hot spot for growth. They earn the most revenue in the country and perform the most cases annually.
“Physician-owned or operated ASCs in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Arkansas have been the result of robust entrepreneurial growth over the years coupled with very little restraints of certificate of need statutes and regulatory oversight,” Stewart Burchett, executive director of Oklahoma Lithotripter Associates and Oklahoma Kidney Stone Center in Oklahoma City, told Becker’s on March 29. “The result early on was a plethora of ASCs as outpatient surgery grew in popularity, and many physician-owned entities were built in...