Outpatient urological surgery costs significantly less when performed in physician offices and ambulatory care centers
Monday, October 22, 2012 - 08:03
in Health & Medicine
More and more outpatient surgical procedures are being done at nonhospital-based facilities such as freestanding ambulatory surgical centers and physician offices, instead of at hospital-based outpatient departments. A new study comparing the cost to Medicare of 22 urological surgical procedures performed in each setting has found that ambulatory surgery centers and physician offices are less costly than hospitals.