Surgery Center Benchmarks

Where should I take my cases?

Every Medicare-certified surgical center in your metro, on one screen — what they do, how big they are, how often patients end up in hospital afterwards, and what those patients said. Assembled from federal data that nobody has joined before.

6,640 certified centers · 403 metro areas · all 54 states and territories

Largest markets

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, CA

308 centers
With quality data
167
With patient survey
92
Median ORs
2
Other surgery 125Orthopedic surgery 113Plastic surgery 105Pain management 100Endoscopy 93

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA

182 centers
With quality data
144
With patient survey
107
Median ORs
2
Other surgery 53Pain management 40Endoscopy 38Orthopedic surgery 31Ophthalmology 29

Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ

168 centers
With quality data
128
With patient survey
111
Median ORs
3
Other surgery 63Pain management 60Orthopedic surgery 46Plastic surgery 40Endoscopy 38

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

162 centers
With quality data
121
With patient survey
87
Median ORs
2
Other surgery 52Pain management 43Plastic surgery 32Endoscopy 26Orthopedic surgery 25

New York-Jersey City-White Plains, NY-NJ

147 centers
With quality data
109
With patient survey
86
Median ORs
3
Orthopedic surgery 70Pain management 60Other surgery 58Foot surgery 50Plastic surgery 43

Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

105 centers
With quality data
68
With patient survey
70
Median ORs
3
Other surgery 51Endoscopy 46Orthopedic surgery 42Pain management 42Foot surgery 37

Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine, CA

103 centers
With quality data
64
With patient survey
49
Median ORs
2
Plastic surgery 45Pain management 44Orthopedic surgery 39Endoscopy 35Other surgery 32

Dallas-Plano-Irving, TX

100 centers
With quality data
76
With patient survey
69
Median ORs
3
Other surgery 56Orthopedic surgery 43Pain management 39Endoscopy 32Foot surgery 32

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA

99 centers
With quality data
62
With patient survey
36
Median ORs
2
Other surgery 34Pain management 33Endoscopy 32Ophthalmology 30Orthopedic surgery 28

Frederick-Gaithersburg-Bethesda, MD

91 centers
With quality data
67
With patient survey
52
Median ORs
2
Other surgery 29Foot surgery 24Plastic surgery 22Endoscopy 21Orthopedic surgery 19

Chicago-Naperville-Schaumburg, IL

77 centers
With quality data
67
With patient survey
53
Median ORs
3
Orthopedic surgery 50Pain management 47Foot surgery 46Ophthalmology 39Other surgery 38

Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO

71 centers
With quality data
59
With patient survey
57
Median ORs
3
Orthopedic surgery 32Other surgery 31Pain management 29Ophthalmology 22Plastic surgery 22

Every state

Including the 571 centers CMS files outside any metro area — a rural area code, or no CBSA at all. They have no metro page, so their state page is the only place they appear.

What's in a row

  • Specialty mix — which case types the center is certified and equipped for, straight from its CMS filing.
  • Capacity — operating rooms and procedure rooms, so you can tell a two-room shop from a ten-room facility.
  • Hospital visits after surgery — CMS risk-standardized 7-day rates with their confidence intervals, against the national rate.
  • Patient experience — OAS CAHPS scores, where the center has enough completed surveys to report.
  • Ownership type — for-profit, non-profit or government, as filed.

What is not here yet: per-procedure Medicare rates. Those are keyed to CPT codes, which carry a license we haven't bought — see the methodology. Everything above is free federal data.

Looking at the market, not for a center?

Investors, operators and their advisors read the same federal records as a market map: installed capacity, the enrolled operator and how many centers it runs, what each center publishes about quality, and Medicare volume for 5,140 of them — filterable and exportable, whole country.

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