Becker's Healthcare July 28, 2022
Payers are incentivizing physicians to perform procedures in low-cost settings, which means ASCs are becoming increasingly attractive, according to ASC leaders.
Insurers are finally seeing the cost savings potential in the outpatient setting. In the last decade, payers have caught on that ASC procedures are about half the cost of a hospital, according to a report from Regent Surgical Health.
“Many payers are developing steerage mechanisms to shift cases to lower-cost settings which will result in more pressure on physicians to move cases to the outpatient ASC arena,” Andrew Lovewell, administrator of the Surgical Center at Columbia (Mo.) Orthopaedic Group, told Becker’s.
In November 2019, UnitedHealthcare adopted a policy that restricted sites of care for some nonurgent surgeries....
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