With that said, while ASCs are a low-cost, high-safety setting, the big challenge is that hospitals have a high incentive to keep cases in places they profit from and out of where they don’t profit, such as cases done in an independent ASC. With that being the case, and hospitals controlling more of the flow of cases, we have a hard time seeing how ASCs — particularly independent ones — win in a game where more of the healthcare is controlled by vertically integrated systems.
Contact Scott Becker at sbecker@mcguirewoods.com.
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