Ultimately, the implementation of value-based care initiatives will drive the creation of a fairer and more equitable playing field in healthcare, but progress is never linear, MedCity News reports. In healthcare, you can gain leverage and lose it; you can take big leaps forward only to have a global pandemic push it right back. Change is slow, but there is movement. Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), as just one example, with their ability to provide cost-effective care and statistically safer clinical outcomes than in-patient facilities, are a key to moving affordable healthcare forward.
There are approximately 5,300 ASCs in the U.S., and more than 90% are owned or partially owned by physicians. Their streamlined, outpatient models provide a much-needed alternative for many elective or non-emergency procedures – a fact that has only grown in need as hospitals are stretched to their limits. Read more.
