Becker's Healthcare January 17, 2024
Two ASC leaders joined Becker’s to discuss the payer trends that are affecting ASCs in the most significant ways at the moment.
Editor’s note: These responses were edited lightly for length and clarity.
Anthony Bevilacqua, MD. Surgeon at Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Center (Suffolk, Va.): In terms of the payer trend most affecting the surgery centers, I believe it’s an ongoing and evolving problem of payers not covering needed implants. Surgeons will sometimes try to fix something by other means if implants are not available or covered by insurance. Since more complex problems are progressively shifting to outpatient areas, this problem is likely to worsen. It might be an appropriate time for consideration of conveying a portion of...
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