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The perception of cleanliness in ASCs is paramount for patients, according to a survey of millions of patients in the U.S. conducted by Compass One Healthcare and healthcare performance improvement company Press Ganey and released in a Feb. 16 report.

New York has the most students enrolled in a Doctor of Medicine-granting program, according to 2020 and 2021 enrollment data from the Association of American Medical Colleges. 

Several cities in California are experiencing an increase in inflation, according to personal finance website WalletHub.

President Joe Biden will undergo a routine physical health exam on Feb. 16 at Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., and release updates of the examination to the public, according to a report from news station WHDH. 

A former office manager of a Newark, N.J.-based medical practice admitted to conspiring with a physician to distribute prescription amphetamine to patients, the Justice Department said Feb. 15. 

Here are three updates from Dallas-based United Surgical Partners International Becker's has reported on since Jan. 30:

A survey conducted by Sermo, a private social media platform for physicians, and LiveWorld, a digital and social media agency, found that 57 percent of physicians said they frequently or occasionally allow social media to influence their perception of medicine…

The 12 most expensive neighborhoods for physicians to live in in the U.S. are all located in California and Florida, the two states with the most ASCs in the nation, according to a Feb. 14 report from Bloomberg based on…

Technology leader ModMed has been named the top EHR for nine medical specialties on Black Book's Physician Practice & Ambulatory Solutions list for 2023. 

Covenant High Plains Surgery Center in Lubbock, Texas, has become the first in the region to perform a robotic gastric sleeve bariatric procedure using the Da Vinci X robot.