Rena Courtay: Addressing ASC Headwinds
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America's surgery centers are caught in a perfect storm: physician shortages that have tripled anesthesia costs, a vanishing workforce of surgical technicians, and Medicare policies so out of alignment that patients pay more for outpatient surgery than hospital procedures. We sat down with Rena Courtay, VP of Ambulatory Surgery at Trinity Health and ASCA Board officer, to unpack the physician and anesthesia shortage, why some surgery centers are scrambling to fill sterile processing jobs, and how legislators are working to modernize Medicare's copay structure.
Major insurers like United are finally pushing procedures out of expensive hospitals and into surgery centers. Plus, AI is about to revolutionize medical billing and coding in ways that could save the industry billions.
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