Becker's Healthcare December 13, 2022
ASCs and payers continue to face obstacles as they work through the challenges and changes of today’s healthcare environment.
The push to low-cost settings
As payers push for physicians to perform procedures in low-cost settings, ASCs are becoming a go-to facility for physicians.
“With the continued rising cost of patient care in the hospital setting, ASCs have become many insurance companies’ preference for outpatient surgery,” Dianna Reed, administrator of Sani Eye Surgery Center in Templeton, Calif., told Becker’s.
Reimbursement rates fail to budge
Payers regularly pay more to hospital outpatient departments than to ASCs for the same procedures. Private insurer payments to hospital outpatient departments were 2.6 times larger than payments to ASCs from 2018 to...
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