HealthCare Appraisers' 2018 ASC Valuation Survey provided insight into the ASC market and surgery center characteristics.
Fifteen respondents representing over 700 surgery centers in the U.S. responded to HealthCare Appraisers' survey.
Respondents shared which management services are provided as part of agreements:
Group purchasing organization access
1. Never: 7 percent
2. Rarely: 0 percent
3. Sometimes: 13 percent
4. Often: 7 percent
5. Always: 73 percent
Accounting
6. Never: 13 percent
7. Rarely: 0 percent
8. Sometimes: 13 percent
9. Often: 27 percent
10. Always: 47 percent
Architecture and design
11. Never: 47 percent
12. Rarely: 13 percent
13 Sometimes: 7 percent
14. Often: 7 percent
15. Always: 27 percent
Benchmarking
16. Never: 0 percent
17. Rarely: 0 percent
18. Sometimes: 0 percent
19. Often: 20 percent
20 Always: 80 percent
Coding
Never: 40 percent
Rarely: 7 percent
Sometimes: 13 percent
Often: 13 percent
Always: 27 percent
Corporate business development executive and staff
Never: 7 percent
Rarely: 0 percent
Sometimes: 20 percent
Often: 20 percent
Always: 53 percent