With patients having more financial responsibility for their healthcare, outpatient settings like surgery centers are becoming more attractive to patients. In general, procedures at ASC’s are 35% to 50% than hospitals. This steady growth for ASC’s presents new opportunities but will also present some new challenges as well. What are the major challenges?

With an increasing number of patients with high deductible health plans, it is essential that ambulatory surgery centers leverage technology and automation to improve the patient financial experience. A recent report shows that the ASC market could grow to $120.8 billion industry by 2026 but there is a great need to begin using technology to make improvements to the patient financial experience.