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Author: Claire Wallace

Optum Services of Minnesota, an affiliate of United Health, has purchased a medical office building in Marysville, Wash., for $20.3 million according to an Aug. 6 report from the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce.

The Ambulatory Surgery Center Association has spent $210,000 on lobbying expenses in 2024, according to data from campaign finance tracking nonprofit Open Secrets.

Austin, Texas, has been named the top city to avoid buying a home in due to population overcrowding, according to an Aug. 4 report from GoBankingRates based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau. 

Nurse practitioners are the most in-demand medical specialists in 2023 and 2024, according to AMN Healthcare's 2024 "Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives," report. 

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Between the 2022-23 and the 2023-24 fiscal years, physician starting salaries increased in eight specialties while decreasing in four, according to AMN Healthcare's 2024 "Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives" report. 

Gastroenterologists have seen an average 4.94% year-over-year starting salary increase since 2018, according to AMN Healthcare's 2024, "Review of Physician and Advanced Practitioner Recruiting Incentives."

A two-story, 20,764-square-foot medical office building and surgery center has been completed in Fort Myers, Fla., according to an Aug. 1 report from Gulfshore Business.

Midland-based MyMichigan Health has finalized the acquisition of several Michigan-based Ascension facilities, including a Saginaw-based ASC and a Tawas-based surgery center, according to an Aug. 1 report from the Detroit Free Press.

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