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Here are seven updates for ASC leaders to know for March 15, 2018.

Administrators at the Bend (Ore.) Surgery Center and Bend, Ore.-based Cascades Surgicenter said they'll consider adding recovery rooms for keeping patients for up to two days, The Bulletin reports.

Anthem outperformed the industry's 33.2 percent growth over a year with a 39.2 percent surge in stock, Zacks Equity Research reports.

Envision Healthcare alleged UnitedHealthcare unilaterally lowered contracted payments to Envision physicians and refused to add new Envision physicians to its insurance network, Axios reports. Prior to the lawsuit, UnitedHealth Group was reportedly interested in acquiring AmSurg, Envision's ambulatory unit, but…

Cary (N.C.) Skin Center will begin offering patients Mohs surgery for melanoma in situ.

Clearlake Capital Group acquired procedure documentation software provider Provation Medical from Wolters Kluwer.

Hot Springs (Ark.) Cardiovascular Surgery Center added cardiovascular surgeon Daniel McCoy, MD, to its staff, The Sentinel-Record reports.

Here are seven updates for ASC leaders to know for March 12, 2018.

At his confirmation hearing, New Jersey's new Health Commissioner Shereef Elnahal, MD, said he'd soon introduce a mandatory adverse event reporting requirement for all surgery centers, including one-room facilities not licensed by the Department of Health, NorthJersey.com reports.

Babar Iqbal, MD, and three others were arrested yesterday on felony charges, alleging the co-conspirators were involved in an $8 million healthcare fraud scheme, according to The Press-Enterprise.