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Here are 10 statistics about ophthalmology-driven ambulatory surgery centers from the VMG Health Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2011.

A majority of physicians who had not implemented an electronic health record system say that they had not done so because of cost issues, according to "A Survey of America's Physicians: Practice Patterns and Perspectives," released by The Physicians Foundation.

Narrowing networks among insurance providers have been a trend for years, accelerated by healthcare reform implementation. Ambulatory surgery centers are now deciding whether to squeeze into narrowing networks or take their chances outside of them.

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AmSurg has 10 centers enrolled in the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's 12-month Program for Ambulatory Surgery, which has a zero patient-harm goal, according to a blog post.

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