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Register Today for the 20th Annual Ambulatory Surgery Centers Conference in Chicago, October 24-26--Call 1-800-417-2035 29. Surgery centers with three to four ORs reported 769 non-surgical cases per procedure room annually, which dropped to 705 cases in centers with more than four ORs. 30. In surgery centers with more than four ORs, only 22 percent of the cases were performed by the top two physicians, while 62 percent were performed by the top 10 physicians. 31. Median operating room time per patient encounter: 50.2 minutes.5 32. Procedure room time per patient encounter: 34.2 minutes. 33. Median rate of unscheduled direct transfers: .6 transfers per 1,000 patient encounters. 34. 34 percent of ASC leaders plan to standardize products used in their center.6 35. 24 percent plan to evaluate their GPO. 36. 19 percent plan to implement an order management system. 37. 6 percent plan to change or join a GPO. 38. 6 percent plan to change distributors. 43 Revenue cycle benchmarks 46. Around 47 percent of ASCs with fewer than 3,000 cases have 0 to 30 A/R days, while 18.7 percent have 31 to 60 A/R days.9 40. 13.3 percent of ASCs receive cash collection between 31 and 60 days from the service date to the check date. 47. Most ASCs with at least 6,000 cases annually have 0 to 30 A/R days. 39. 79.9 percent of ASCs collect between 0 to 30 days from the date of service to the check date.7 41. 20 percent of ASC claims are not collected for more than 30 days. 42. The top reason for ASC procedures to receive an unexpected denial is "claims or service lacks information which is needed for adjudication." The second most common reason is "duplicate claim or service" followed by "procedure or treatment is deemed experimental or investigational by the payer."8 43. Commercial insurance companies have a 12 percent unexpected denial rate for the top 10 CPT codes that have unexpected denials at ASCs. 44. Medicare's unexpected denial rate is 6 percent for the top 10 CPT codes that have unexpected denials at ASCs. 45. Medicaid has a 26 percent denial rate for the top 10 CPT codes that have unexpected denials at ASCs. 48. Of all ASCs, about 15.9 percent have more than 120 A/R days. 49. For ASCs with three to four ORs, average ENT revenue is $1,734 per case. 50. Average GI/endoscopy revenue per case for medium-sized ASCs is $776. 51. Orthopedics revenue per case for three- to four-OR ASCs is $2,617. 52. Average general surgery revenue per case for medium sized ASCs is $1,721. 53. For ASCs with three to four ORs, average ophthalmology revenue is $1,249 per case. 54. Average plastic surgery revenue per case for medium-sized ASCs is $1,516. 55. Podiatry revenue per case for three- to fourOR ASCs is $2,021.