Ambulatory surgery center (ASC) operators are no strangers to change. But as procedure migration accelerates and specialties like cardiovascular care become more common in the outpatient setting, ASC leaders are being forced to rethink everything from payer strategy to staffing models. “We all have costs. We all see the increase in costs,” Todd Currier of Bend Surgery Center in Oregon said at the Arizona Ambulatory Surgery Center Association’s 2025 Annual Conference in Scottsdale. “Having payers not giving any increase, or very limited increases, is just not how we can stay in business long term.” These trends – more procedures being shifted into ASCs, margin pressures and limited payer movement – can create challenges.
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Source: https://ascnews.com/2025/08/how-ascs-are-navigating-case-mix-transformation/