Becker's Healthcare October 29, 2024
From consistently declining reimbursements to inflation and staffing shortages, these are the healthcare trends that ASC leaders told Becker’s they’re tired of hearing about and want to see action on:
Editor’s note: Responses have been lightly edited for clarity and length.
Suzi Cunningham. Administrator of Advanced Ambulatory Surgery Center. (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.): ASCs need stronger legislative representation to ensure that we can survive in the future. We are being squeezed financially and will not survive if we don’t get equal reimbursements as HOPDs. As surgery centers, we do not get the benefit of hospital [group purchasing organization] pricing, nor do we get government help, and our reimbursements are decreasing when our costs to operate have increased substantially. While...
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