Becker's Healthcare August 23, 2023
Annually, three main outlets, including The Leapfrog Group, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report release lists ranking the “best” ASCs in the country for the year.
With so many different outlets ranking the best outpatient facilities, and so many different ASCs coming out on top, patients may be left wondering how the lists can be so diverse.
It is because the three lists all consider different factors, and different data ranges, when putting together their yearly rankings.
All three organizations incorporate data from CMS, which runs the Hospital Outpatient Quality Reporting program and the Ambulatory Surgical Center Quality Reporting program.
According to Newsweek’s methodology page, it selects its top performing facilities by looking at the...