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11 THOUGHT LEADERSHIP The lifestyle benefits of ASCs By Paige Haeffele A dam Spiegel, CEO of Irving, Texas-based anesthesia management group NorthStar Anesthesia, joined Becker's to discuss the benefits ASCs offer clinicians, particularly anesthesia specialists. Editor's note: Response has been edited lightly for length and clarity. Question: What benefits do ASCs offer clinicians? Adam Spiegel: At a high level, it really is a work-life balance thing. For nurse anesthetists and anesthesiologists, it's about more predictable hours. It's changed a little bit since COVID, because ASCs are running longer and sometimes they're running on weekends, but you don't run into add-on cases and trauma. at sort of kicks things out, and you don't have on-call, which is the biggest thing. So especially for people who are looking for a little bit more of the classic nine to five job, that's what an ASC can offer, and it's pretty predictable. From a compensation perspective, there's much less of a delta between the hospital-based work and ASCs than there has been historically. So I think a lot of clinicians like to work in ASCs just because of that. ere's a lot more predictability. As for nurse anesthetists, ASCs tend to be a place where you can operate a little bit more top of license. ASCs are much more cost-conscious, in a way, because they tend to be backed by physician ownership. So the physicians are going to care a lot more about keeping costs as low as possible, and a lot of times that means more care models. And CRNAs are operating closer to the top of license — it's not just CRNAs, it's RNs, and everybody else is able to operate more top of license, too. Patient acuity is a bit lower. And again, it just makes for a less stressful environment for anesthesia providers as well. I think that that acuity piece is why it tends to be more of a lifestyle choice for people. ere's always going to be lifestyle trade-offs, if everything was great at ASCs, nobody would work in a hospital. You're definitely going to see that pay is always going to be a little bit more for people who have to take on-call shis and have to work longer hours, or take 24-hour shis and those kinds of things. But that delta is being reduced. n Save up to two hours of documentation time daily with Sunoh.ai integration with eClinicalWorks. Our comprehensive ASC solution integrates with the ambient listening power of Sunoh.ai to cut documentation time and help providers better serve patients. Go to www.sunoh.ai for more information. Go to www.eclinicalworks.com for more information. Start your conversation today Pricing starts at $1.25 per visit*