“We continue to invest in our outpatient footprint,” Bill Rutherford, HCA’s CFO, said during the call. “That should help drive reasonable outpatient surgical growth.”
Here are three more notes to know:
1. Total outpatient procedures jumped 5 percent and outpatient cardiology procedures increased 7 percent.
2. Surgical volumes in HCA’s hospital outpatient units were up slightly more in the first quarter than ASCs, according to the call.
3. The company has a “more significant investment” in its ASC development pipeline, as well as possible acquisitions in the works, CEO Sam Hazen said.
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