ASC News

Glassdoor examined the current state of U.S. employment and offered projections on areas poised for growth.

The Outpatient Ophthalmic Surgery Society supports CMS' proposal to eliminate requirements that every patient have a comprehensive medical history and physical examination 30 days before surgery in an ASC.

Medscape released the Massachusetts Physician Compensation 2018 report.

Minor oversights can completely derail the budget for a surgery center project, which upsets management and places financial strain on owners, according to Lakewood, Colo.-based Pinnacle III Regional Director of Operations Jebby Matthew.

Specialists saw a 2 percent median pay increase this year compared to 2017 while median primary care physician compensation remained flat, according to an ECG Management Consultants survey.

Wayne (N.J.) Surgical Center treated its 130,000th patient Nov. 26, an important milestone for the three-operating room, multispecialty surgical center.

Gregory P. DeConciliis, PA-C, CASC, is the administrator of Waltham, Mass.-based Boston Out-Patient Surgical Suites , a multispecialty center that opened in July 2004.

The number of ASCs in the U.S. has grown 82 percent since 2000 as the popularity of outpatient surgery has grown, according to REJournals and a JLL report.

Kyron Rayshawn Templeton, 27, will stand trial in March 2019 for capital murder after he allegedly stabbed and injured several people at an ASC in 2013, the Longview News-Journal reports.

Rhetha Helen "Ann" Kidwiler, 70, passed away Nov. 23, Herald-Mail Media reports.