Definitive Healthcare's database uses Medicare data to track the total procedures performed at ASCs.
Here are the top 10 Medicare procedures performed at ASCs in the Northeast:
1. Cataract surgery - 229,779 procedures
2. Endoscopy service - 162,803 procedures
3. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy - 119,590 procedures
4. Colonoscopy and biopsy - 100,953 procedures
5. Colonoscopy with lesion removal - 75,925 procedures
6. Transforaminal epidural block - 60,049 procedures
7. Under Incision Procedures on the Lens of the Eye - 46,454 procedures
8. Diagnostic colonoscopy - 35,829 procedures
9. Under injection, drainage, or aspiration procedures on the spine and spinal cord - 31,418 procedures
10. Colorectal cancer screening; colonoscopy on individual at high risk - 29,217