Becker's Healthcare March 28, 2023
Sage Transparency, a healthcare transparency database from the Employee’s Forum of Indiana, has determined the average facility price of ASCs in 46 states based on the Medicare reimbursement rate for services.
Wyoming is the most costly state, with ASC services costing an average of 555 percent of the Medicare reimbursement rate.
Sage’s facility prices include the cost of inpatient and outpatient service fees but does not include physician fees. The numbers are based on data collected from over 2,000 ASCs nationwide.
- Wyoming: 555 percent
- Alaska: 372 percent
- Wisconsin: 323 percent
- Iowa: 311 percent
- Nebraska: 290 percent
- South Dakota: 254 percent
- Vermont: 243 percent
- Indiana: 228 percent
- Montana: 220 percent
- New Jersey: 201...