Medicare payments to ASCs jumped nearly $2 billion between 2018 and 2023, according to a March 13 MedPAC report to Congress.
Here’s a chart illustrating the growth in Medicare fee-for-service payments to ASCs from 2018 to 2023:
| Year | Medicare payments to ASCs |
| 2018 | $4.9 billion |
| 2019 | $5.2 billion |
| 2020 | $5.6 billion |
| 2021 | $6 billion |
| 2022 | $6.3 billion |
| 2023 | $6.8 billion |
