Medical facilities in New York could face a new 3 percent fee increase to build a new facility because of a proposal in Gov. Andrew Cuomo's $178 billion budget, the New York Post reports.
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Hospitals and surgery centers in Iowa will be required to install surgical smoke abatement systems in their centers by July 1, 2021, if state legislators enact HSB 510, SouthernMinn.com reports.
Malls are dying, but surgery centers offer a unique opportunity to save the once-monstrous retail meccas and fill a hole left by disappearing department stores, St. Louis Public Radio reports.
The Idaho legislature is considering a bill to allow optometrists to perform three additional procedures, local news affiliate KTVB7 reports.
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Here are three key ASC management tips garnered from interviews published in Becker's ASC Review:
With 2019 having just wrapped up, let's take a look back at some of the ASC industry's most significant developments and trends from the year past.
Lori Tamburo Martini is director of operations for the Foothills Surgery Center in Boulder, Colo. Here, she shares her ASC's business goals for this year, top challenges and more.
Here are six legal and regulatory issues affecting ASCs:
The gap between hospital and ASC leader compensation persisted in 2018 and 2019, according to OR Manager surveys from those years.