ASC ownership is one of the best ways physicians can take command of their financial future. As a GI or specialty physician, owning your own center just makes sense. Economically, regardless of the reimbursement climate, owning your own center grows your bottom-line through your center’s collective procedure volume, efficiency, and most of all, through the passive facility fees you collect from every patient that is cared for at your center.
But it is not only your financial well being that is taken care of. With direct input and control over staffing, equipment and scheduling, your clinical life gets a boost of improved patient care, which is why you became a doctor in the first place. Your patients are serviced better, quicker and with more personalized care than would be possible at a large hospital or private practice. And with increased efficiency in scheduling, your workflow takes on the rhythm you want, rather than being dictated from the outside. With your time being managed more efficiently, you in turn have more time to take care of yourself, be it pushing even harder to serve more patients, or even taking the afternoon off to be with your family (or getting in a round or two at the links!).
So the question becomes, not whether you should explore opening a center, but rather, why partner with a company such as Physicians Endoscopy to make this venture a reality? PE has helped many physicians across the country start and maintain their own ASC. Some of the perks physicians enjoy when they partner with PE:
- Physician majority ownership
- Physicians Control
- Increased finanacial opportunity
- successful recruiting assistance
