Re: "HOPD or ASC: Which Model is Better" (December, page 6). I am intrigued that we remain in an either-or situation in our mental model for surgical-care delivery. I have long been an advocate of ASCs under the umbrella of a larger system or hospital, yet less than 11 percent of the nearly 3,000 ASCs in the United States were hospital-owned in 2003, according to Verispan.
