Physician Ownership of Ambulatory Surgery Centers and Practice Patterns for Urological Surgery

Where do I send thee? Does physician-ownership affect referral patterns to ambulatory surgery centers?

For more than three decades, Congress has struggled with potential financial conflicts of interest when physicians share in financial gain from nonprofessional services. This study asks the question: Are physicians who are leading referrers to physician-owned ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) more likely to send Medicaid patients to hospital outpatient clinics than other patients? The compariso...

Health Affairs Of Surgeries Physician - Ownership Of Ambulatory Surgery Centers Linked To Higher Volume

Many physicians confronting declining reimbursement from insurers have invested in ambulatory surgery centers, where they perform outpatient surgical and diagnostic procedures. An ownership stake entitles physicians to a share of the facility’s profits from self-referrals. This arrangement can create a potential conflict of interest between physicians’ financial incentives and patients’ clinica...

Urologist ownership of ambulatory surgery centers and urinary stone surgery use.

OBJECTIVES To understand how physician ownership of ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) relates to surgery use. DATA SOURCE Using the State Ambulatory Surgery Databases, we identified patients undergoing outpatient surgery for urinary stone disease in Florida (1998-2002). STUDY DESIGN We empirically derived a measure of physician ownership and externally validated it through public data. We e...

Clinical Practice Guideline for Ambulatory Anorectal Surgery.

Ambulatory Surgery Data From Hospitals and Ambulatory Surgery Centers: United States, 2010.

Objectives-This report presents national estimates of surgical and nonsurgical ambulatory procedures performed in hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in the United States during 2010. Patient characteristics, including age, sex, expected payment source, duration of surgery, and discharge disposition are presented, as well as the number and types of procedures performed in these sett...