ABC examined case volumes for 16 large practices in seven states over a period of five years. The practices had at least one main hospital facility each and a variety of ASCs.
The company compared the percentage of government payers in the inpatient setting to the percentage of government payers in the outpatient setting:
2015
Inpatient: 49 percent
Outpatient: 42 percent
2016
Inpatient: 50 percent
Outpatient: 43 percent
2017
Inpatient: 52 percent
Outpatient: 45 percent
2018
Inpatient: 52 percent
Outpatient: 45 percent
2019
Inpatient: 52 percent
Outpatient: 47 percent
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