Becker's Healthcare June 14, 2023
Riz Hatton

The future of ASCs may prove to be simultaneously bright and challenging.

Six ASC leaders connected with Becker’s to answer, “What is the future of ASCs in one word and why?”

Note: Responses have been lightly edited for length and clarity.

Barbara Clancy-Sweeney. Administrator of Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (Philadelphia): Boundless. As advances continue to be made in medicine and technology, more and more procedures become outpatient and are pushed to the ASCs by the payers.

Andres Duran. Administrator of Brownsville (Texas) Surgery Center: Growth. Ambulatory surgery centers will continue to grow via acquisitions and de novo facilities. As healthcare transitions to value-based care, ASCs will be vital to that transition, as they perform outpatient procedures at lower rates...

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