Becker's Healthcare January 16, 2025
The dynamics of ASC-hospital have changed as hospitals have become increasingly interested in pursuing outpatient ventures. This often takes the form of joint ventures with existing ASCs.
Some ASC leaders and physicians are wary of these relationships, as some report negative impacts to physician autonomy and financial misalignments between the hospital or larger health systems and the ASC. When designed more justly and collaboratively, however, these partnerships can produce positive long term results for all parties involved.
“We’ve been able to get better reimbursement rates by having a hospital be the majority stakeholder,” Bruce Feldman, the administrator of Eastern Orange Ambulatory Surgery Center in Cornwall, N.Y., told Becker’s. “They have a whole contracting department at their disposal. So...
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