Ambulatory Services Market

Industry Analysis

The size of the global ambulatory services market to grow at a CAGR of 6.9% from 2019 to 2025.

Ambulatory service is medical care provided to a patient who comes to the hospital for treatment and doesn't stay at night, including facilities like test nature of the illness, the process of carefully observing, the process of discussing, treatment, action taken to improve a medical disorder and rehabilitation services. This care is provided even out of the hospital also.

The adoption of ambulatory services is significantly increasing over the past few years.

According to the Centre for Medicare and Medicaid Services, 5,357 Medicare-certified ASCs and about 3,360 HOPDs were there in 2012 December. In 2006, around 35 million ambulatory surgical visits were happened, in which, 20 million surgeries and procedures were performed in HOPDs, and approximately 15 million were performed in ASCs.

Also, in 2007, the Medicare payments to ASCs have been increased by 24% from USD 2.9 billion to 3.6 billion, which was in 2012. The funds given by the government are rising, which offers team-based primary care, surgeries are cost saving as compared to the hospitals and also the government investments for old population these factors are driving the growth of the ambulatory service market. 

The growing incidents of the chronic diseases, progression in technology and the new rules made by the government which are offering economic advantage are affecting the growth of the global market. Also, the demand for minimally persistent surgeries, more patient recovers with shorter healing time, cheap surgical charges, and well prepared ambulatory service centres are anticipated to drive the market in the forecast period.

Technological advancements are further expected to drive the market growth.

By the advancements of the technology, medical procedures and surgeries are also held in ambulatory services where these are only performed in hospitals in earlier days. The Healthcare sector is moving towards the capable, personalized treatments for the patients who are undergoing through transformations, advancements in genetics, information technology and biomedical. At the same time, accepting the customer-centric approach healthcare sector today going to creates positive consumer experiences. As a result, the market is increasing rapidly.

Additionally, the factors like decrease in-hospital stay, ease of access, capable timings, and high cost of alternative treatments, government initiatives to integrate acute and increase in the ageing population are few of the other factors driving the market growth. As the healthcare expenditure grows, there is a rise in standard chronic diseases and an increase in hospital readmissions and the increase in preference of minimum tendency to spread surgeries very quickly along with technology advancements, which propels the expansion of outpatient centres.

MARKET CHALLENGES

The ineffective communication, increase in the adverse effect of the drugs and delayed diagnosis are restraints for ambulatory services market. Regulatory and operational uncertainties and data security concerns, lack of amount to be repaid, which is lost or paid, diagnostic errors are more common are some of the critical challenges to the global ambulatory services market.

REPORT COVERAGE:

This research report on the Global Ambulatory Services Market segmented and sub-segmented based on the type and region.

Ambulatory Services Market – By Type:

• Primary Care Offices
• Emergency Departments
• Surgical Specialty
  • Ophthalmology
  • Orthopaedics
  • Gastroenterology
  • Spinal Injection/Pain Management
  • Plastic Surgery
  • Others

Regional Analysis

Under this global report, the following regions are North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East and Africa are studied. North America is further segmented into the United States, Canada and Rest of North America. Regionally, the North America region held the largest share in the global market in 2019 due to the rise in healthcare expenditure, the cost-saving offers given by the hospital stays, alter of the ageing population to outpatient care, increasing network with physicians and healthcare providers and the presence of leading players in the market.

European countries, the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Italy, Germany and Rest of EU are covered in this report. Europe ambulatory services market holds the second-largest share. In this region, the factors driving the business are rise in investment in research and development, well-developed healthcare infrastructure and rise in the healthcare funds. Further, the demand for ambulatory service is expected to grow in Europe by creating awareness amongst patient and also to improved quality of surgery said by the British Association of Day Surgery and Healthcare Conferences UK.

India, China, Japan, Australia & NZ, South Korea, ASEAN countries (Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, Myanmar and Others) and Rest of APAC are considered under the Asia Pacific region. Asia-Pacific is expected to grow radically in the forecast period due to the increasing health care issues with the rising incidence of chronic diseases, and the government is also taking the initiative to introduce outpatient strategies. For case, the applications launched by China and Japan are easy to use and book the outpatient appointments they are also providing knowledge about the ambulatory service. Latin America region is segmented into Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Chile and Rest of LATAM.

The Middle East & Africa market to see a fixed growth which is due to an increase in investments of research and developments and the rapid adoption of technological advancements in the medical sector.

Noteworthy companies in the market

Key market participants leading the global ambulatory services market profiled in this report are Envision Healthcare Corporation, Surgery Partners, IntegraMed America, Inc., NueHealth (Nueterra Healthcare), Terveystalo Healthcare, Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) Management Services, L.P., Aspen Healthcare, Healthway Medical Group and Medical Facilities Corporation.