ASC News

In the wake of an upcoming physician shortage, Texas and Georgia increased their medical school enrollments and are seeking ways to increase residencies, according to The Augusta Chronicle.

Here are five recent legislative and policy changes impacting ASCs in the last month.

Here are seven updates:

After being in private practice for 28 years, dentist Larry Squire, MD, is now a member of the Scott County Board of Health in Davenport, Iowa, according to the Quad-City Times.

The Tennessee Justice Center in Nashville released a report detailing the impact the state's healthcare gap has on local communities, according to WKRN-TV-Nashville.

The American Medical Students Association and Public Citizen, a watchdog group, are calling for an investigation into "unethical" clinical trials, which require first-year medical residents to work up to 28 hours or more at a time, according to MedPage Today.

The average medical school student graduated with a median debt of $180,000 in 2014, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges' "2014 Medical Student Education: Debt, Costs, and Loan Repayment Fact Card."

BayCare welcomed James P. Cote as senior vice president of ambulatory services.

Christopher S. Zarella, MD, joins the staff of The Waldorf Center for Plastic Surgery, located in Portland, Ore., according to a press release from SBWire.

Here are 20 statistics on ambulatory surgery center staff hours per case based on the number of cases at the ASC, according to VMG's Multi-Specialty ASC Intellimarker 2012.