ASC News

Washington State University in Pullman plans to recruit students for its new medical school, WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, according to MyNorthwest.com.

Due to the lack of available residencies, Florida is expected to face a shortage of up to 7,000 physicians by 2025, according to jacksonville.com.

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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center is creating a freestanding outpatient surgery center in Manhattan, the Josie Robertson Surgery Center, according to a Healthcare Design Magazine report.

The Orthopaedic South Surgical Center partnered with Resurgens Orthopaedics on a project to provide winter coats for community members in need, according to a report from The Citizen.

Here are 18 statistics on how physicians typically allocate staff raises according to the Clinical and Office Staff Salary Report 2015 from Medscape.

The American Medical Association gave the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City a three-year grant to research medical school costs, according to The Daily Utah Chronicle.

A recent CareCloud Practice Profitability Index survey found nearly 59 percent of physicians are not planning to sell or merge, according to Healthcare Finance.

Despite wages remaining steady over the last decade, employees are paying nearly twice as much for employer-sponsored health insurance, according to The Fiscal Times.

In a post-reform era, out-of-network payments remain one of the last frontiers for ASCs to reap higher reimbursements and increase their profit margins. However, an alarmingly high number of ASC administrators are unaware of how or choose not to take…