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Paul J. Lebovitz, MD, is a gastroenterologist with Allegheny (Pa.) Health Network. He serves as vice chair of the department of medicine for Allegheny Health Network and also works as an associate professor at Drexel University College of Medicine in…

Each year, medical errors account for 400,000 patient deaths, and cost the nation between $15 billion and $19 billion, according to Alternet.

Here are 15 recently accredited ambulatory surgery centers.

Researchers analyzed how a local patient safety intervention and a national guideline impacted unnecessary red blood cell transfusions, according to AJMC.com.

Some payers in New York's State of Health Marketplace are offering the "Zero or Twenty Dollar Essential Plan," according to Time Warner Cable News.

Cortina Asset Management bought 31,869 more Surgical Care Affiliates shares during the fourth quarter, according to The Vista Voice.

From 2005 to 2015, nearly 45 percent of all spine cases were performed on an outpatient basis, a stark increase from only 5 percent of cases in 2005. While surgeons are increasingly performing outpatient spine procedures, not every center is…

Here are seven updates.

David Pillsbury joined Laser Spine Institute in 2015 as president; recently, he took over as CEO of the national leading minimally invasive neck and back surgery company poised to take a larger role in gathering data and providing outpatient spine…

A California jury ruled in favor of Aetna in a medical billing fraud case involving ambulatory surgery centers in Northern California, according to a Law 360 report.