1. The average hourly wage for an ASC’s administrative staff was $22.19, up from last year’s average of $19.42. The median was $21.65.
2. Here is the average hourly wage for ASC administrative staff by region:
- Northeast — $23.68
- West — $23.30
- Southeast — $23.15
- Midwest — $20.93
- Southwest — $20.57
3. Here is the average hourly wage for ASC administrative staff by the number of operating rooms a surgery center has:
- 1-2 ORs — $22.11
- 3-4 ORs — $22.32
- More than 4 ORs — $20.82
4. Here is the average hourly wage for ASC administrative staff by the number of cases a surgery center performs in a year:
- Less than 3,000 — $22.74
- 3,000-5,999 — $22.47
- More than 5,999 — $21.32
5. Here is the average hourly wage for ASC administrative staff by the total net revenue of a surgery center:
- Less than $4.5 million — $21.72
- $4.5-$7.0 million — $21.68
- More than $7.0 million — $21.06
6. For centers that perform more than 50 percent of their cases in orthopedics, the average hourly wage for ASC administrative staff was $20.91, with a median of $20.84.
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*”Administrative staff” can include all employees other than nurse and tech FTEs. Depending on what the ASC outsources with respect to back office functions (billing/collections, mgmt services, accounting, HR, etc.), this can include receptionists, administrators, insurance verifiers, schedulers, transcriptionists, coders, billing/collections staff, medical records staff and accounts payable staff.
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