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After awaiting trial without bond for 43 months, Detroit physician Rajendra Bothra, MD, was acquitted June 29 of all charges that he used his pain clinics to illegally prescribe $500 million in opiods, the Detroit Free Press reported. 

A pain management physician in Douglas, Ga., has admitted to participating in a drug trafficking scheme that distributed controlled substances from his pain management clinic, The Georgia Virtue reported July 5. 

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Here are 17 new ASCs Becker's has reported on in June:

ASC chain Surgery Partners and Charlotte, N.C.-based Novant Health have submitted plans for a $328.7 million medical center in Asheville, N.C., The Transylvania Times reported June 29. 

Registered nurse pay jumped 4.81 percent from 2020 to 2021, according to the Medical Group Management Association's "Management and Staff Compensation" report.

Here are the biggest deals in the second quarter of 2022 that ASC leaders need to know:

From a rise in colorectal cancer cases to missed colonoscopy appointments, here are five numbers making gastroenterologists nervous. 

A retired orthopedic surgeon in Fresno, Calif., was charged nearly $4,000 more for a cataract surgery at a hospital outpatient department than his wife who received the same procedure at an ASC, Kaiser Health News reported June 27. 

Electrocardiogram services are the most popular ancillary services offered by physicians, according to Medical Economics' "2022 Physician Report" released June 18.