Andrew Lovewell

Is in America, you know, a lot of there's a lot of self-funded health plans, you know, employer sponsored health care.

So employers are trying to save cost on what they're providing for their employees.

And they've shifted a lot of their demand towards ASC space.

You saw that happen with Walmart a few years ago with their Center of Excellence program.

You know, debated on whether or not that was successful based on who they used.

You're also seeing that happen with, you know, people picking GI type places that are in the ASC space over hospitals.

I would see a lot more employers kind of make that demand on how cases get shifted to the ASC.

You're also going to see more employers offer free or reduced cost on their health plan to people who choose that route because it does provide a savings to the employer group when they're providing those benefits to the employees.

So overall, it's kind of mixes together to deliver a really perfect storm for ASCs to expand.

You know, as an ASC, you've got to be ready for that by October.

You know, do you have all the technology in place?

Do you have the staff in place?

Is your block schedule optimized where you can kind of produce at that level?

So just getting all your ducks in a row, making sure you got the basics in place.

You know, even before we start exploring the AI side of things, like let's just get the basics right so we can deliver and, you know, get those cases that are going to move over.

So I would give that kind of nugget as like, you know, just check all the boxes, be prepared for, you know, the migration and continued migration of cases coming.

I think that's a great question.

You know, I would anticipate if it's an ASC that hasn't invested in technology yet, right?

So somebody who doesn't have an EHR, doesn't have a inventory management system or some type of nature there, I would strategically look at that as an opportunity for your next horizon of strategic planning, because that's going to give you more data and information to make decisions.

I think that it's going to provide you