The instability of the healthcare market and with challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic have required ASCs to adapt to ensure success.
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COVID-19 forced an estimated 28 million elective surgeries to be delayed or canceled worldwide in 2020 alone. Some hospital surgical suites and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) closed — either permanently or temporarily — and a significant number of physicians, nurses,…
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Surgeon recruitment is top of mind for many ASCs, both to bring new cases and partners into the business.
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Amazon, Walmart and other companies aim to make healthcare more efficient and cost-effective, but are missing the surgery center industry entirely.
After physicians earn their medical degrees, most go on to complete several years of residency before diving into a specialty fellowship or beginning their practice.
The U.S. could face a shortage of 37,800 to 124,000 physicians by 2034, according to data released by the Association of American Medical Colleges in June
The two top physicians by caseload at a given ASC perform a median of 29 percent of the facility's cases, according to VMG Health's "Multi-Specialty ASC Benchmarking Study" for 2022. There are notable differences between regions, however.
Physicians may not use paintbrushes or pastels, but the techniques they use when treating patients show they are nothing short of artists. When their autonomy is taken away, what do physicians become?