Becker's Spine Review

39 OUTPATIENT SURGERY 10 highest-paying cities for physicians in 2020 By Laura Dyrda M ilwaukee is the highest paying metropolitan city for phy- sicians, according to Doximity's 2020 Physician Compen- sation Report. The company surveyed about 44,000 full-time U.S. physicians on compensation growth from 2019 to 2020 and found that overall compensation was up 1.5 percent. Below is a list of the top 10 met- ropolitan areas with the highest physician compensation. 1. Milwaukee: $430,274 2. Atlanta: $428,244 3. Jacksonville, Fla.: $427,090 4. Buffalo, N.Y.: $407,070 5. Orlando, Fla.: $406,587 6. Raleigh, N.C.: $406,365 7. Charlotte, N.C.: $404,285 8. Minneapolis: $401,978 9. Riverside, Calif.: $397,005 10. Dallas: $396,184 n 11 biggest surgery center projects in 2020 by cost By Angie Stewart T his year, at least 11 developments in- volving an ASC or outpatient surgery center represented an investment of $50 million or more. e biggest surgery center projects Becker's ASC Review covered this year, ranked by dol- lar amount: 1. A $1 billion construction project at Wil- lowbrook, Calif.-based Martin Luther King Jr. Community Hospital includes plans for a medical office building with an ASC. 2. Baptist Health Lexington (Ky.) plans to build a $1 billion outpatient surgery and med- ical campus in Hamburg, Ky., for which it will receive up to $12.7 million in tax breaks over 20 years. e campus will have a multistory hospital, a surgery center and 12 buildings with retail and medical office space. 3. Duluth, Minn.-based Essentia Health is developing a new hospital, clinical building and outpatient surgery center, but the project timeline was pushed back to accommodate an expansion. With the expansion, the proj- ect will cost $900 million. 4. Houston-based Baylor St. Luke's is expanding its McNair Campus with a 400,000-square-foot, $426 million medical office building, which it expects to open in early 2023. e 12-story facility will feature an ASC, a pain center, a radiology depart- ment and other services. 5. Orlando (Fla.) Health and Jewett Ortho- pedic Institute (which is now part of the system) broke ground on a 197,000-square- foot $250 million orthopedic complex Nov. 17. e facility will have 75 inpatient rooms, 20 operating suites, five virtually connected operating suites and 167,000-square-feet of medical office space. 6. University of Rochester (N.Y.) is redevel- oping a portion of a former shopping mall in Rochester for $240 million. e develop- ment will have an ASC and a multistory of- fice building. 7. Jacksonville, Fla.-based Baptist Health is building a $200 million, 300,000-square-foot hospital on its campus in Fleming Island, Fla. e hospital will offer an array of services including an adult and children's emergency department, an ASC, and specialty and im- aging services. 8. e University of Illinois Hospital in Chicago broke ground Aug. 13 on a $194 million sur- gery center and specialty clinic development. 9. Portland, Maine-based Northern Light Mercy Hospital began work on a $83.8 mil- lion expansion, which will create a hospital, a medical office building and an ASC. 10. A Houston-based developer is building a 364,000-square-foot medical office building that will contain a surgery center. Developers expect to finish the first phase of construc- tion in the fall of 2021, and the entire project will cost around $77 million. 11. In late July, Chillicothe, Ohio-based Ade- na Health System reached the halfway point on construction of its $70 million Orthope- dic and Robotic Surgery Center. n ASCs projected to take 68% of orthopedic surgeries by mid-decade — 5 insights By Angie Stewart A SCs will perform an estimated 68 percent of orthopedic surgeries by the mid-2020s, according to Research and Markets' "2020 Ambulatory Surgery Center Market Report" published Oct 21. Five additional insights: 1. ASCs currently perform about 41 percent of all surgical procedures. 2. Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, 100 percent of ASCs stopped elective surgeries. 3. Seventy-three percent of ASCs halted semi-elec- tive surgeries due to COVID-19. 4. One-third of ASCs suspended non-elective surgeries. 5. Seventy-three percent of hospital ASCs are operated as physician joint ventures. n

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