Becker's Healthcare February 24, 2020
ASCs have been an integral part of healthcare for the last 50 years, but what if tomorrow they all were ordered to close?
Becker’s ASC Review sought out answers to the hypothetical doomsday question. Joan Dentler, president and CEO of Avanza Healthcare Strategies, was nice enough to entertain our request and laid out insightful, comprehensive answers to this thought exercise.
Note: Responses were edited for style and content.
Question: If ASCs had to close tomorrow, what would happen to healthcare?
Joan Dentler: This is difficult to fathom. After all, ASCs are now ingrained in our health system. There are roughly as many surgery centers as hospitals. Surgeons perform millions of procedures annually in ASCs. Surgery centers employ the equivalent of...
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