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Here are seven news updates for ambulatory surgery center leaders to know for May 15, 2014.

Starting a new role as a leader of a pre-existing team can be a challenge, and new leaders need to be tactful and patient, according to a Forbes report.

It’s a quickly changing time for surgery centers. Those centers that thrive will have a committed group of core physicians, great lay or physician leadership, a smart, hands-on administrator and will be willing to both contain costs and look constantly…

Most physicians between the ages of 60 and 69 years took one to five years to pay back their medical school student loans after starting to practice medicine, according to "2014 Work/Life Profiles of Today's U.S. Physician," released by AMA…

Jeffrey Nees, MD, recently became the second neurosurgeon in an Oklahoma ambulatory surgery center to perform a two-level artificial disc replacement.

The California Ambulatory Surgery Association published a legislative update for May 2014.

The following are 10 ambulatory surgery centers that have made the news locally, at the state level or nationally in the past week.

Internal medicine physicians are least likely to choose their specialty again, according to the Medscape Physician Compensation Report 2014.

Northeast Ohio's Center for Health Affairs has released a report showing the total number of outpatient surgery cases has increased since 2012.

Here are six recent news updates on ambulatory surgery center companies.