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Ambulatory Surgical Center at Basking Ridge (N.J) earned Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care accreditation.

AmSurg employees volunteered at the Second Harvest Food Bank.

Both independent and joint venture ASCs present opportunities and challenges. Kecia Norling, RN, CNOR, CASC, administrator of Portland, Ore.-based Northwest Ambulatory Surgery Center, an affiliate of United Surgical Partners International, can vouch for that. She has been in charge of…

Physicians are prescribing more opioid painkillers than ever before to patients undergoing common surgeries, according to new research published in JAMA.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a rare blood infection attributed with 17 deaths in Wisconsin has now been reported in Michigan, according to BABW News.

Houston-based Veterans Affairs Medical Center researchers found some physicians spend more than an hour every day on electronic health record alerts, according to Medscape.

A ProPublica analysis found physicians who receive payouts from pharmaceutical companies prescribe more branded medications than physicians not receiving payouts, according to Parent Herald.

New York will require physicians to electronically send prescriptions to pharmacies, according to CBS News.

The Department of Health and Human Services created the Medicare Shared Savings Program and accountable care organizations to minimize healthcare spending, yet the programs have cost substantially more than the government anticipated, according to RevCycle Intelligence.

 Surgical Care Affiliates' short interest stock increased 43 percent, according to Franklin Independent.