Healthcare procedures on the move

Today more and more types of care are being delivered outside of traditional hospitals and in health centers, including physician offices, patient homes and ambulatory surgery centers.  The trend is accelerating, creating new opportunities and risks- payments for procedures conducted outside the hospital can be upwards of 40 percent lower.  It takes rigorous research and planning to identify the best opportunities in each market and in each type of care. 

In this paper, we explore:

• What services can be successfully shifted outside of the hospital
• In which markets have services shifted and where have they not
• What factors may be driving this difference in site-of-service shift maturity by market
• How and where should stakeholders strategize and invest for mature versus immature markets