Competition is the missing ingredient in lowering healthcare costs, ASC executive says

As healthcare costs continue to climb and consolidation accelerates across the industry, one ASC executive says the solution policymakers keep overlooking is competition. Dan Tasset, founder and chairman of Leawood, Kan.-based NueHealth, joined Becker’s that empowering patients with real choices and price signals, not subsidies or consolidation, is the key to lowering costs and improving quality. Dan Tasset: The way I like to look at what we’re doing is this: we’re preparing the partners we manage for value-based care readiness — although everybody uses the term “value-based care” too much. That’s how we’re different, and that’s the direction this country is going in healthcare delivery. If we don’t do something quickly, we’re going to end up with a two-tier healthcare system like much of Europe.