Becker's Healthcare November 17, 2023
Two ASC leaders recently joined Becker’s to discuss where ASCs are losing money.
Editor’s note: These responses were edited lightly for brevity and clarity.
Les Jebson. Regional Administrator at Prisma Health (Greenville, S.C.): Scheduling procedures or cases that may have uncertainty or variability in overall case time or supply utilization. For those procedures that end up being more technically complicated, and thus, often needing more resources, they can create a per-case loss for some ASC settings. A well-managed ASC should minimize case variation and manage patient acuity accordingly, thus mitigating the possibility of losing money. This is a challenging task and one that many ASC administrators work in tandem with their surgeons to manage.
Todd Neiss. Business Manager...
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