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Advanced Pain Centers in Festus, Mo., is opening an outpatient pain management clinic in Sullivan, Mo., according to a Sullivan Journal report.

Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Hollywog, a medical device company, will add 22 jobs over the next 18 months in a $400,000 expansion, according to a Knox News report.

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality offers a free toolkit on promoting healthcare organizations' public reports on quality, cost and other measures.

K7 has received FDA 510(k) clearance for its K7C Cervical Spacer spinal implant for use as an intervertebral body fusion device.

Patients who are not engaged in their healthcare can cost hospitals up to 21 percent more than patients who are engaged, according to a study in Health Affairs.

Plano, Texas-based MediGain, a revenue cycle management company, has raised $8.5 million in funding to expand its medical billing and reimbursement services to include ambulatory surgery centers.

The place of service code 11 should only be used for minor surgeries in physician offices, not ambulatory surgery centers, according to AAPC.

Researchers may have found a link between exercise and decreased diabetic neuropathic pain in rats, according to Anesthesia-Analgesia.

Paul H. O'Neill, former secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush and a former CEO of Alcoa, suggested President Barack Obama require hospitals to report patient safety events daily in an op-ed in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

Two Chattanooga medical practices merged with larger companies recently, following national trends of medical consolidation to survive healthcare changes, according to the Times Free Press.