Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) can play an important role in reducing health care spending, with facility-level data showing steep price differences between hospital outpatient departments and surgery centers for the same procedures. This is according to a new report from Trilliant Health that looked across five common outpatient surgeries and found that ASC rates were consistently lower than those at hospitals. And while ASC rates were lower in aggregate, the analysis found significant variation from facility to facility, even within the same metropolitan area. The report used the federal Transparency in Coverage (TiC) dataset to compare commercial payer-negotiated rates across more than 3,400 surgery centers and 2,600 hospitals.
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Source: https://ascnews.com/2025/08/report-finds-ascs-deliver-billions-in-savings-compared-to-hospitals/