Becker's Healthcare May 9, 2024
U.S. News & World Report has rated ambulatory surgery centers for the first time this year after decades of rating acute care hospitals across the nation, and surgery center leaders can now preview their results.
“When we started ranking hospitals in the 1990s, most surgical care was provided in the hospitals. Now it’s not performed in the hospitals as much. It’s in ASCs,” said Ben Harder, managing editor and chief of health analysis at U.S. News.
U.S. News took a similar approach for the ASC ratings as the hospital rankings, focused on CMS data. ASCs aren’t able to opt in or out of the ratings; if they send claims to CMS, they’re automatically examined.
“It puts no burden on ASCs...
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