Becker's ASC Review

15 ASC MANAGEMENT Registered nurses 1. California: $120,560 2. Hawaii: $104,830 3. Massachusetts: $96,250 4. Oregon: $96,230 5. Alaska: $95,270 6. Washington: $91,310 7. New York: $89,760 8. Nevada: $89,750 9. New Jersey: $85,720 10. Connecticut: $84,850 Certified registered nurse anesthetists 1. Wyoming: $243,310 2. Montana: $239,380 3. Oregon: $234,750 4. Wisconsin: $233,600 5. California: $227,290 6. Iowa: $202,400 7. Massachusetts: $201,890 8. New York: $200,350 9. Illinois: $199,660 10. Connecticut: $198,750 Physician assistants 1. Alaska: $150,430 2. Connecticut: $146,110 3. Rhode Island: $135,800 4. California: $135,180 5. Nevada: $134,710 6. New Jersey: $131,210 7. Vermont: $128,050 8. New York: $126,370 9. Washington: $129,910 10. New Hampshire: $124,080 Quality benchmarks e following data is based on the "ASC Quality Collaboration Quality Report" from the first quarter of 2021. e data was collected Jan. 1, 2021, through March 30, 2021. 1. Patient fall rate per 1,000 ASC admis- sions: 0.2 2. Patient burn rate per 1,000 ASC admis- sions: 0.014 3. Hospital transfers/admissions per 1,000 ASC admissions: 0.897 4. Rate of wrong site, side, patient, proce- dure, implant per 1,000 ASC admissions: 0.029 5. Percentage of eligible ASC patients with normothermia: 98.2 percent 6. Percentage of ASC cataract patients with unplanned anterior vitrectomy: 0.35 percent 7. Rate of toxic anterior segment syndrome per 1,000 admissions: 0.075 8. Rate of emergency department visits within one day of discharge per 1,000 admissions: 0.819 9. Rate of unplanned hospital admissions within one day of ASC discharge per 1,000 admissions: 0.349 10. Only 9 percent of ASCs require their administrators to hold the Certified Administrator Surgery Center credential. Among that 9 percent, less than half pay their CASC-certified staff more than those without the credential. 11. Sixteen percent of ASCs require their infection preventionists to hold the Cer- tified Ambulatory Infection Preventionist credential, while 11 percent require them to hold the Certification in Infection Pre- vention and Control credential. Out of all ASCs that require either of the two, 73 percent pay their credentialed staff more. Staffing e following data is based on the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association's 2021 "Salary & Benefits Survey" released Aug. 20. Most surgery centers budgeted 3 percent raises for staff in 2021. Other benefits include: 1. Retirement benefits: 92 percent of centers 2. Profit-sharing plans: 34 percent of centers 3. Paid time off for full-time employees: 97 percent of centers 4. Median paid days off: 21 5. Tuition reimbursement and continuing education: 47 percent of centers 6. Seventy-one percent of ASCs projected hiring would increase this year as com- pared to previous years. 7. Employee turnover rates were 20 percent or higher in 2020 for about one-fih of the respondents, and 35 percent said turnover rates were higher than in 2019. 8. ASCA gathered data from 600 member ASCs in June, with 95 percent of the centers having at least partial physician ownership. Turnover trends 1. Eighteen percent of ASCs reported turnover rates greater than 20 percent in 2020. 2. Forty-one percent reported the same turnover rate as 2019. 3. irty-five percent reported a generally higher turnover rate in 2020 than 2019. 4. Twenty-four percent of ASCs showed a turnover rate of 1 to 5 percent among management. 5. Seventy-two percent reported no man- agement turnover at all. 6. Eleven percent of ASCs reported no voluntary turnover in clinical staff. 7. Forty-eight percent reported a 1 to 5 percent turnover rate. 8. Ten percent reported a more than 20 percent turnover rate. 9. irty-nine percent reported no volun- tary turnover in nonclinical staff. 10. Forty-six percent reported 1 to 5 percent turnover. 11. Two percent reported turnover rates higher than 20 percent Employee health plans 1. e survey found that 98 percent of ASCs offer health insurance benefits for employees, and 95 percent offer family insurance plans. 2. Fiy-eight percent of respondents report- ed making changes to their health plans last year to control costs. ose changes include increasing deductibles, increasing employee copay and changing insurance carriers. n

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